Chrome Weather Adware Removal

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You should know adware is perhaps the most annoying type of virus out there. Thanks to Chrome Weather, you’ll see for yourself just how obsessive and obnoxious these programs are. Yes, this is a classic adware-type infection. It was developed by hackers to generate web traffic to some specific websites. Eventually, crooks aim for gaining revenue at the victim’s expense. Now that Chrome Weather is on your device, hackers take over your entire online experience. Your permission (or the lack of it) has nothing to do with the parasite’s modifications. This virus starts harassing you as soon as it gets downloaded. Hence, Chrome Weather doesn’t waste any time. It adds an unwanted extension/plugin to your browsers and may install some additional toolbars too. Also, the parasite could mess with your search engine or default homepage. Keep in mind that cyber viruses are quite unpredictable. The seemingly harmless Chrome Weather originally promised to provide you weather forecasts. However, in reality, this program causes you trouble. By lying to your face, the virus attempts to trick you into keeping it on board. Forget about all its bogus functionalities right away and don’t underestimate the threat. Once your browser settings get modified, the adware brings along commercials. Sponsored, immensely unreliable commercials. We’re talking coupons, discounts, product offers and deals, price comparisons, best prices, etc. Not a single one of the advertisements is on your PC screen to help you shop online. Even though the commercials appear to be safe, they get generated by a parasite. In other words, Chrome Weather injects your browsers with unreliable pop-ups. Stay away from these commercials unless you’re willing to compromise your safety further. The parasite causes your browsers to redirect you and to crash/freeze. Its stubborn commercials cover every single page you visit. As if that wasn’t enough, the adware may spy on some of your personal details and send your data to hackers. It goes without saying this nuisance has to go. The sooner, the better.

How did I get infected with?

Chances are, the virus applied some stealthy technique to get installed. One very popular tactic is called freeware/shareware bundling. Yes, it is about as simple as it sounds. That’s why most types of cyber viruses use that method and travel the Web via bundles. If you tend to download bundled programs, keep an eye out for intruders in the future. A rule of thumb is to opt for the Custom/Advanced option in the Setup Wizard. Take your time to read the Terms and Conditions or EULA as well. These may sound like unnecessary steps but they could prevent virus infiltration. Better safe than sorry. Know that protecting your machine is a lot less time-consuming than uninstalling malware. Save yourself the hassle and be cautious. Check out the bundles you download instead of skipping important steps. Rushing the process is ill-advised too. Last but not least, many viruses travel the Web via spam emails or messages. Restrain yourself from opening the suspicious email-attachments you may receive. Delete anything you find untrustworthy and take care of your machine.

Why is this dangerous?

Browsing the Web is impossible due to the parasite’s trickery. Chrome Weather also causes a poor PC performance and your Internet connection might become unstable too. In addition to that, you get constantly redirected to unknown websites. You get bombarded with sponsored commercials as well. The parasite successfully destroys your everyday online experience. Furthermore, this pest may serve as a back door to malware. It even poses a threat to your privacy so don’t hesitate. Unless you remove this adware-type nuisance ASAP, hackers may cause you irreversible privacy damage. For example, financial scams and identity theft. The virus mainly monitors browsing-related data but there’s no guarantee it wouldn’t go one step further. If this parasite gets to your personally identifiable information (like bank account details), things may go from bad to catastrophic. To delete the infection, please follow our detailed manual removal guide down below.

How to Remove Chrome Weather virus

The Chrome Weather infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Chrome Weather infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

STEP 1: Track down Chrome Weather in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Chrome Weather startup location

STEP 3: Delete Chrome Weather traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Chrome Weather in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate Chrome Weather startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean Chrome Weather virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

STEP 3 : Clean Chrome Weather traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Chrome Weather by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

Step 4: Undo the damage done by Chrome Weather

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for Chrome Weather, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

You must clean all your browser shortcuts as well. To do that you need to

• Right click on the shortcut of your favorite browser and then select properties.

• in the target field remove Chrome Weather argument and then apply the changes.
• Repeat that with the shortcuts of your other browsers.
• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove Chrome Weather Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your system and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.