How to Remove Weather Inspect Adware

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We all check the weather forecast online. However, do we need a browser add-on for this? Some do. Malicious apps take advantage of this situation. Weather Inspect is one such nasty parasite. This application is classified as adware. It displays more than the weather forecast. It also displays advertisements. The Weather Inspect application is ad-supported. It generates revenue via pay-per-click marketing. Basically, for every ad you click on, the owners of the furtive app will be paid. Therefore, you will be drowned in advertisements. Ad banners will blink on every website you visit. Pop-up messages and constant browser redirection will interrupt your normal browsing. You will hate the experience. With every passing day, the marketing campaign will get more aggressive. Weather Inspect will turn your web browsing into a nightmare. On top of that, your PC will become unresponsive. This is also caused by the adware. This application has never been meant as a light program. It consumes an enormous amount of computer resources. You must be wondering how an ad-displaying app can use such an amount of resources. Well, there something you don’t know. The Weather Inspect adware does more than just displaying adverts. It is also monitoring its victims’ online activities. It records your every online move. Which pages you visit, search inquiries you make, which adverts you click on, etc. Everything is monitored. By keeping the adware on board you are risking private information getting exposed. Luckily, the Weather Inspect adware is relatively easy to be removed. Under the condition, you act promptly, of course.

How did I get infected with?

The Weather Inspect adware does not have an official website. You cannot just download it from some website. No. This parasite is distributed via stealthy and cunning techniques. The most commonly used one is undoubtedly the bundling techniques. Developers would attach the malicious app as an extra to some freeware. That is all they do. Everything else is up to you. When you start the installation of such a bundle, you will face two installation options: an advanced one and a standard/fast wizard. Which one do you prefer? If the standard installation is your usual choice, you should change your habits! This method is automatic. By selecting it, you are giving up your control. The standard setup wizard will install every single program that has arrived in the bundle. Your further approval won’t be needed. As you can see, you could have prevented the Weather Inspect infection. Learn your lessons. From now on, choose the Advanced setup. Under it, you can deselect all potentially dangerous apps. Other malware distribution methods involve spam emails, fake software updates, and torrents. Your caution can prevent these techniques from succeeding.

Why is this dangerous?

Weather Inspect utility has nothing to provide you with. This application does not display the weather forecast, but advertisements. It is an ad-supported utility that has no place on your computer. The Weather Inspect adware is a typical member of its hateful family. It displays numerous commercials. Yet, it doesn’t check what is being promoted or who the advertiser is. As long as you are willing to pay, you can use the adware to promote. Hackers take advantage of the situation. They use adware applications to redirect their potential victims to infected websites. The scheme is simple. The moment you click on a corrupted ad, a drive-by download starts. Seconds letter, your PC is infected. Unfortunately, this threat is far not the only danger the adware exposes you to. As we already mentioned, this furtive application collects data about your online activities. Some personally identifiable information, however, can also be recorded. If you use your PC to pay the bills or to make an online purchase, the adware will record your usernames, passwords, credit card details and billing address. This data will be sold to third parties. A hacker can be that third party. If such an event occurs, the consequences will be devastating. The Weather Inspect adware is an obstacle that keeps you from using your computer freely. This app cannot be beneficial to you. Therefore, don’t hesitate to remove it!

How to Remove Weather Inspect virus

The Weather Inspect 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 Weather Inspect 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.

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STEP 1: Track down Weather Inspect in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Weather Inspect startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Weather Inspect 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 Weather Inspect

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 Weather Inspect, 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 Weather Inspect 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 Weather Inspect 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.