How to Remove Wonderful Weather Virus

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Do you feel like drowning in a sea of online adverts? Every website you open, every link you follow, the Internet seems to be flooded with ads provided by Wonderful Weather. You are not the only one who feels this way. Unfortunately, it’s not the Internet, it’s your browser – it is infected. The nasty Wonderful Weather adware has managed to enter your OS unnoticed and is now causing irritation. The good news is that this parasite is not a full-fledged virus. Yet, is sure is aggressive. This parasite is a malicious ad-generating utility. It is programmed to generate revenue through pay-per-click and pay-per-visit schemes. The parasite infects your web browser and turns them into ad-displaying tools. It injects various adverts on every website you load and redirects your traffic to sponsored pages. This intruder can ruin your browsing experience in seconds. It interferes with every aspect of your day to day browser activities. The adware will never leave you alone. It won’t let you get a simple task done without an ad interruption. The adware is a menace that is hard to be tolerated. And it shouldn’t. The more time you grant it on board, the worse your situation becomes. This parasite tends to get more and more aggressive with each passing day. Therefore, don’t waste your time. Remove the Wonderful Weather adware before it gets out of control. The sooner this intruder’s gone, the better!

How did I get infected with?

The adware parasites are sneaky. They have numerous tricks up their sleeves and they know how to use them. Yet, their distribution schemes have something in common – to succeed, they all rely on your carelessness and naivety. You installed the Wonderful Weather hijacker. Unintentionally, of course. You either installed it as an extra to some freeware or downloaded a malicious software copy. The bad news is that you could have prevented this infection. Learn from your mistakes. Do not let other parasites trick you ever again. Always keep your guard up. Download your software from reputable sources only. Avoid using torrents. And by all means, pay attention to the installation processes. Forget about the “Net-Next-Finis” installation method. Many software developers attach additional apps to the payload files of their programs. These third-party tools, more often than not, are malicious programs like the Wonderful Weather adware. To prevent them from installing, you should use the Standard/Custom installation option. Under it, you will be given the opportunity to deselect all extras and still install the app you originally planned to set up. Don’t make the crooks’ job easier. Don’t throw your caution to the wind. Always do your due diligence!

Why is this dangerous?

The Wonderful Weather adware cannot be beneficial to you. Quite the opposite – it is harmful. This parasite jeopardizes both your security and privacy. Think about the ads, don’t they seem to be related to your personal needs and interests? Well, they are. The adware does not bombard you with random adverts. No, this parasite displays relevant ads. It, after all, knows your preferences, needs and fears. The adware monitors your browser related data. It spies on your online activities and uses the collected data as a base for ad-targeting. Unfortunately, that is not the end of the story. The collected information is a valuable resource. The adware sells access to it. Anyone willing to pay can use the parasite and its resources to target you. Numerous crooks do. They prepare customized adverts and forces them on you. They show you what you want to see, but when you click, bad things happen. You risk ending up on scam and infected websites. The crooks target your wallet. They are ready to do anything to get your money. And the Wonderful Weather adware is a great tool in their arsenal. Do not risk it. Do not become an easy target! Clean your computer ASAP!

How to Remove Wonderful Weather virus

The Wonderful 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 Wonderful 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 Wonderful Weather in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Wonderful Weather startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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