How to Uninstall QuickWeatherTracker Toolbar Completely

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The QuickWeatherTracker toolbar is presented as a useful tool which displays the weather forecast from your local weather stations. It has an official website which offers a free download; however, this furtive utility is mainly distributed in stealthy and secretive ways. For that reason, the QuickWeatherTracker toolbar is categorized as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). These types of infections are relatively easy to be removed. There is a catch, of course. You must act promptly. The sooner, the better. The QuickWeatherTracker toolbar does look useful. However, it doesn’t deliver the services it promises. Once on board, this program will modify your web browsers. It creates an ad-layer which forces advertisements on all opened web pages. The QuickWeatherTracker toolbar will also change your default search engine. Yes, the search result you are seeing do look as if they are coming from a well-known search provider. In reality, they are corrupted. The QuickWeatherTracker toolbar “injects” fake entries among them. These, most of the time, are ads. However, they are not marked as such. You will never be sure which results are organic and which are paid to be there. Doing an objective research will be impossible. Furthermore, the malicious utility is constantly blocking its competitors’ ads. You will see only what the toolbar allows you to see. Eventually, you will lose track of the current situation on the market. Don’t become an easy target. Remove this intruder ASAP!

How did I get infected with?

Do you remember installing something recently? Developers tend to “attach” extra programs to the installation files of many free programs. This method is called “bundling” and is very common nowadays. If you are careless, these extras will sneak into your PC unnoticed. To prevent this, opt for custom installation. Don’t worry. There is nothing complicated in this method. It is a simple step-by-step installation wizard. When you select the advanced option, you will be presented with a list of all additional programs that are about to be installed. Deselect them. You can never be sure what these third party tools are intended for. Also, forget about the “next-next-finish” installation method. Never rush through an installation. Read through the terms and conditions/EULA. If you spot anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately. Protecting your computer is your responsibility and yours only. Keep your anti-virus program up to date. After all, it is your last defense wall.

Why is this dangerous?

QuickWeatherTracker is not a tool you would wish to share personal information with. However, if you have it installed, you will. The malicious application monitors all your online activities. This means that it can steal your user names and password. And it won’t keep this information for itself. On the contrary, it will spread it. Every bit of data will be sold to third parties. How would you feel if a hacker buys your data? This is a possible scenario, yet, not very likely. It would be far more realistic to assume that a marketing agent will buy it. PUPs are commonly used for advertising. This doesn’t mean that you are safe. The QuickWeatherTracker toolbar doesn’t have filtering mechanisms. Anyone willing to pay can use its services to promote anything, including uncertificated or even illegal products and services. Be extremely careful if you have kids. This utility has no parenting control.

How to Remove QuickWeatherTracker virus

The QuickWeatherTracker 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 QuickWeatherTracker 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 QuickWeatherTracker in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate QuickWeatherTracker startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the QuickWeatherTracker 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 QuickWeatherTracker

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 QuickWeatherTracker, 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 QuickWeatherTracker 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 QuickWeatherTracker 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.