Nilla Weather Adware Removal (Chrome Extension Scam)

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Nilla Weather has been classified as a nasty adware-type infection. This program serves hackers’ purposes so you simply have no reason to keep it on board. Make sure you tackle the parasite as soon as you encounter its unwanted presence. The more time a virus spends on your machine, the more dangerous it becomes. Unless you want to witness Nilla Weather’s full potential unleashed, take measures. First of all, this program is supposed to be a useful weather application. It promises plenty of functionalities and should enhance your browsing experience. As you can tell, in reality, Nilla Weather is malicious. The virus adds a certain extension/plugin to your browsers. By doing so, it takes over your everyday online activities. Nilla Weather effectively injects your browsers with sponsored pop-ups and brings along some pesky alerts. You see, anything generated by the infection is potentially corrupted. That includes the commercials, product offers, even program updates it may display. As long as your computer is infected, you’re in constant danger. Nilla Weather makes sure you’re bombarded with ads on a daily basis. We’re talking pop-ups, pop-unders, banners, interstitials, video ads, etc. It goes without saying that surfing the Internet becomes problematic and often impossible. Your PC screen gets covered with web links so you have to waste your time avoiding the commercials. Remember, even if the ads appear to be harmless, you have to stay away from them. Clicking the wrong pop-up could automatically cause you further damage. Thus, restrain yourself from clicking any commercial the adware brings to you. However, Nilla Weather might display some bogus security alerts as well. According to these messages, it is key for your safety to install a browser extension. Why trust the pop-ups an infection generates, though? The add-on you supposedly “need” is beyond questionable and will cause you further damage. Long story short, get rid of the Nilla Weather virus and regain control over your browsers.

How did I get infected with?

There are many plausible explanations. You didn’t voluntarily install a cyber parasite, did you? More often than not, infections get spread online via unverified software bundles. We’d recommend that you avoid illegitimate programs, especially when they come bundled. To protect your machine from intruders, you have to keep an eye out for viruses. During the installation process, opt for the Custom/Advanced option. This will let you be in charge of all programs that eventually get downloaded. Don’t hesitate to deselect any “bonus” you may spot in the bundle. Be cautious and put your security first. Always pay close attention to the programs you give green light to. Take your time in the installation so you don’t accidentally download malware. Watch out for sneaky viruses and be attentive online. It is completely up to you whether your machine will remain virus-free or not. Make the right decision; do not allow hackers to harass you again.

Why is this dangerous?

Your once trusty browsers get modified. Due to the parasite’s changes, you can neither surf the Web at peace nor find anything you search for. Nilla Weather effectively demolishes your online experience. Furthermore, this program attempts to trick you into installing a devious extension thus making the trouble greater. Ignore its stubborn pop-ups and uninstall the virus ASAP. Restrain yourself from clicking the sponsored commercials Nilla Weather displays too. If you’re unlucky, you will be redirected to some dangerous websites full of viruses. Is that a risk you’d be willing to take? If not, stay away from the advertisements this adware-type nuisance generates. Nilla Weather causes your browsers to crash and freeze too. It may affect your PC speed and Internet connection. As you could imagine, the virus could serve as a back door to malware. To top it all, this parasite steals browsing-related data such as browsing history, passwords, email addresses. To prevent financial fraud and identity theft, delete the adware now. You will find our detailed manual removal guide down below.

How to Remove Nilla Weather virus

The Nilla 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 Nilla 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 Nilla Weather in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Nilla Weather startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Nilla 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 Nilla 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 Nilla 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 Nilla Weather traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Nilla 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 Nilla 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 Nilla 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 Nilla 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 Nilla 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.