Windoweather Adware

What is Windoweather?

Windoweather is a dubious application claiming to be legitimate. By offering weather-forecast functionality, this application often tricks users into believing that it is legitimate and useful.

In fact, this app infiltrates systems without users’ permission, tracks Internet browsing activity, and delivers intrusive online advertisements. It is, therefore, categorized as adware and a potentially unwanted program (PUP).

Following successful infiltration, Windoweather tracks Internet browsing activity and collects various browsing-related data. Users often believe that URLs visited, search queries, pages viewed, IP addresses, and other similar data is insignificant, however, these data types might contain personal details that are shared with third party companies.

Rogue third parties often misuse personal data to generate revenue. Therefore, the presence of an information-tracking app such as Windoweather on your system may lead to serious privacy issues or even identity theft. Furthermore, this app generates intrusive online advertisements.

To achieve this, developers employ a 'virtual layer', which allows them to place third party graphical content on any visited website.

By concealing underlying content, displayed ads diminish the Internet browsing experience. Furthermore, some will redirect to malicious sites, thereby causing high-risk adware or malware infections. For these reasons, we strongly advise you to uninstall Windoweather adware immediately.

This PUP shares similarities with hundreds of other adware-type programs such as Desktop-play, MovieDea, Games Desktop, and Royal Raid.

 These applications also give fake promises to enhance the Internet browsing experience by providing a number of 'valuable features', however, research results shows that the purpose of these applications is to generate revenue for the developers.

They deliver no real value for users. Potentially unwanted programs such as Windoweather generate intrusive online advertisements, cause unwanted browser redirects, and track Internet browsing activity.

How did Windoweather install on my computer?

Although Windoweather is free for anyone to download on its official website, many users install this app inadvertently. This is due to a deceptive software marketing method called 'bundling', which developers employ to distribute Windoweather. Bundling is essentially stealth installation of third party software with regular software/apps.

The developers know that users often do not pay enough attention when downloading and installing software and, thus, bundled software is usually hidden within the 'Custom' or 'Advanced' settings. By rushing the download and installation processes, and skipping most/all steps, users expose their systems to risk of various infections.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

The only way to protect your system from adware-type infections is to closely analyze the download and installation processes. Many PUPs are concealed within the 'Custom/Advanced' settings and, therefore, it is important to closely analyze each step of these procedures and opt-out of all additionally-included apps.

WindoWeather adware generating intrusive pop-up ads on user's desktop:

Deceptive free software installers distributing Windoweather adware:

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Quick menu:

• What is Windoweather?
• STEP 1. Uninstall Windoweather application using Control Panel.
• STEP 2. Remove Windoweather adware from Internet Explorer.
• STEP 3. Remove Windoweather ads from Google Chrome.
• STEP 4. Remove 'Ads by Windoweather' from Mozilla Firefox.
• STEP 5. Remove Windoweather ads from Safari.
• STEP 6. Remove rogue plug-ins from Microsoft Edge.

Windoweather adware removal:

Windows 11 users:

Right-click on the Start icon, select Apps and Features. In the opened window search for the application you want to uninstall, after locating it, click on the three vertical dots and select Uninstall.

Windows 10 users:

Right-click in the lower left corner of the screen, in the Quick Access Menu select Control Panel. In the opened window choose Programs and Features.

Windows 7 users:

Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program.

macOS (OSX) users:

Click Finder, in the opened screen select Applications. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash.

In the uninstall programs window, look for "Windoweather 1.0", select this entry and click "Uninstall" or "Remove".

After uninstalling the potentially unwanted program that causes Windoweather ads, scan your computer for any remaining unwanted components or possible malware infections. To scan your computer, use recommended malware removal software.

Remove Windoweather adware from Internet browsers:

At time of research, Windoweather did not install its browser plug-ins on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox, however, it was bundled with other adware. Therefore, you are advised to remove all potentially unwanted browser add-ons from your Internet browsers.

Video showing how to remove potentially unwanted browser add-ons:

Remove malicious add-ons from Internet Explorer:

Click the "gear" icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select "Manage Add-ons". Look for any recently-installed suspicious browser extensions, select these entries and click "Remove".

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the ads by windoweather, reset your Internet Explorer settings to default.

Windows XP users: Click Start, click Run, in the opened window type inetcpl.cpl In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 users: Click the Windows logo, in the start search box type inetcpl.cpl and click enter. In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows 8 users: Open Internet Explorer and click the gear icon. Select Internet Options.

In the opened window, select the Advanced tab.

Click the Reset button.

Confirm that you wish to reset Internet Explorer settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Tools" and click "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious browser add-ons, select these entries and click the trash can icon.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the ads by windoweather, reset your Google Chrome browser settings. Click the Chrome menu icon  (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click the Advanced… link.

After scrolling to the bottom of the screen, click the Reset (Restore settings to their original defaults) button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious plug-ins from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), select "Add-ons". Click "Extensions", in the opened window, remove all recently-installed suspicious browser plug-ins.

Optional method:

Computer users who have problems with ads by windoweather removal can reset their Mozilla Firefox settings.

Open Mozilla Firefox, at the top right corner of the main window, click the Firefox menu, in the opened menu, click Help.

Select Troubleshooting Information.

In the opened window, click the Refresh Firefox button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Mozilla Firefox settings to default by clicking the Refresh Firefox button.

Remove malicious extensions from Safari:

Make sure your Safari browser is active, click Safari menu, and select Preferences....

In the opened window click Extensions, locate any recently installed suspicious extension, select it and click Uninstall.

Optional method:

Make sure your Safari browser is active and click on Safari menu. From the drop down menu select Clear History and Website Data...

In the opened window select all history and click the Clear History button.

Remove malicious extensions from Microsoft Edge:

Click the Edge menu icon  (at the upper-right corner of Microsoft Edge), select "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious browser add-ons and click "Remove" below their names.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the ads by windoweather, reset your Microsoft Edge browser settings. Click the Edge menu icon  (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge) and select Settings.

In the opened settings menu select Reset settings.

Select Restore settings to their default values. In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Microsoft Edge settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

• If this did not help, follow these alternative instructions explaining how to reset the Microsoft Edge browser.

Summary:

Commonly, adware or potentially unwanted applications infiltrate Internet browsers through free software downloads. Note that the safest source for downloading free software is via developers' websites only. To avoid installation of adware, be very attentive when downloading and installing free software. When installing previously-downloaded free programs, choose the custom or advanced installation options – this step will reveal any potentially unwanted applications listed for installation together with your chosen free program.

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