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Of course, Always Weather promises to be a harmless tool. Hackers rarely tell the truth about the devious programs they create. More often than not, a virus gets presented as a perfectly safe and attractive application. In reality, the parasite brings nothing but trouble. You can forget right away about Always Weather’s bogus functionalities. This pest isn’t going to provide accurate forecasts. It isn’t going to provide anything but quick access to sponsored, corrupted pop-ups. What you’re stuck with is an adware-type infection. Hence, Always Weather uses a pile of ads to help its developers gain profit. Whether you end up compromising your safety further is irrelevant. Crooks have no reason whatsoever to take care of your security. They use the Always Weather virus to inject your browsers with ads. As soon as the adware gets installed, it adds an extension. That’s all hackers need to take over your entire browsing experience. The Always Weather plugin causes commercials. If you thought this trick was harmless, think again. This is a cyber infection we’re talking about. Its one goal is to allow hackers to make money. And you could be more than certain crooks aren’t trying to help you shop online. Once your browsers get injected with the ads, you’re bombarded with them on a daily basis. There’s no more surfing the Internet at peace. There’s also no more finding what you search for. Always Weather makes sure you always get redirected to some specific websites. The parasite’s pop-up ads now cover every single website you manage to visit. At the least, you’ll have to waste your time avoiding these nasty advertisements. Adware generates quite the impressive pile of pop-ups. It plagues you with various ads in various shapes. You might come across discounts and coupons and best prices and price comparisons. Do you see why adware-type infections are considered to be among the most irritating types of viruses? These programs flood your PC screen with sponsored, immensely unreliable commercials. Unless you stay away from the ads, you could accidentally download more parasites. It’s just that easy. There is no telling which commercial is real and which is corrupted until you click. Is that a risk you’re willing to take? Clicking any web link generated by a cyber virus wouldn’t be well-advised. To protect your machine from further intruders, avoid the stubborn pop-ups Always Weather displays. Bear in mind this infection is solely trying to boost web traffic and help crooks gain revenue. Its advertisements can’t be trusted.

How did I get infected with?

Always Weather does have an official website. Hence, you might have agreed to give green light to the parasite. That isn’t usually the case, though. Infections prefer using stealthy methods to get spread online. The most popular technique at the moment is called freeware bundling. It definitely gives you a reason to watch out for malware next time you download bundles. Especially if the programs are unverified. We’d recommend that you install legitimate software only. Otherwise, you could end up installing a lot more than what you originally wanted. Hackers often attach a couple of infections to such freeware or shareware bundles. Rushing the installation process lets the parasites get installed. And, you’re the one who will have to deal with the infection afterwards. There are some much more destructive kinds of malware out there. Some of them can encrypt your personal files and others spy on your bank account data. To protect your safety, always watch out for infections. Opt for the Custom option in the Setup Wizard instead of skipping steps. Also, make an effort to check out the Terms and Conditions. You won’t regret this; protecting your PC is worth it.

Why is this dangerous?

Always Weather works with some of the most commonly used browsers online. It modifies the settings of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. As a result, your browsers are no longer reliable. They could even redirect you straight to malware. In addition, there’s no getting rid of the infamous Always Weather pop-ups. Keep in mind these alluring ads are all sponsored which makes them questionable. Clicking any of them might involve you in some fraud as well. Do not test out the limits of your luck. Instead, take measures ASAP and uninstall the adware for good. You will find our detailed manual removal guide down below.

How to Remove Always Weather virus

The Always 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 Always 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 Always Weather in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Always Weather startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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