Remove AlwaysWeather.net Ads

This article will help you remove AlwaysWeather.net effectively. Follow the removal instructions for the adware given at the end.

AlwaysWeather.net is a website of an ad network that pushes different content but mainly weather-orientated one. The service spreads a lot of advertisements and can redirect you to different websites, so it is considered adware. The owners of the websites probably generate most of their income from the advertisements, by monetizing the online traffic that goes through their service.

Threat Summary

Name	AlwaysWeather.net
Type	Adware, PUP
Short Description	The site generates advertisements about the Weather conditions in your city, which can show on websites you browse on.
Symptoms	You will always see weather advertisements all over your browsers, like pop-ups, message boxes, in-text links and other types.
Distribution Method	Freeware Installations, Bundled Packages
Detection Tool	See If Your System Has Been Affected by AlwaysWeather.net Download Malware Removal Tool
User Experience	Join Our Forum to Discuss AlwaysWeather.net.

AlwaysWeather.net – Delivery Ways

The AlwaysWeather.net platform might get delivered in a couple of ways. One of the ways includes third-party installations. Without your awareness, the adware could be placed on your computer with those third-party bundle setups with freeware applications. Setups could be set by default to add extra content along with the main software for installation. To avoid unwanted components from installing is doable if you find a Custom or an Advanced options menu. Below you can see that is even pushed through the Chrome Web Store:

The owners of AlwaysWeather.net most probably use advertisements distributed across the internet as a way of delivery. Banners, pop-up and pop-under adverts might be used to get inside your computer if you are not careful. Visiting websites of unknown origins or ones that are dubious can trigger redirects which can be used as another delivery method by this adware. Browsers that can get affected are the following: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari.

AlwaysWeather.net – More Information

AlwaysWeather.net is the official domain of a website that hosts the services of a content platform of the same name. A heap of advertisements and redirects can be displayed about the current weather conditions, while you are browsing if you have programs connected with Always Weather. The platform and all of the software connected to it are considered part of this adware.

If you have the related browser extension on your PC, it will do the following:

• Read and change all your data on websites you visit
• Display notifications
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes

On the picture below you can see the main web page, namely AlwaysWeather.net:

If your computer device has any software installed on it that is associated with AlwaysWeather.net, you will see a big amount of online advertisements. If your browsers have some extension, add-on or plug-in related to the adware, you will witness even a bigger amount of adverts. You will be redirected to various web pages that could be affiliated with the owners of this content platform. Furthermore, you might land on similar websites which pay for the generation of such traffic through adverts and redirects.

Advertisements can show one of those texts inside:

• Ads by AlwaysWeather.net
• Advertisement by AlwaysWeather.net
• Ad by AlwaysWeather.net
• Advert from AlwaysWeather.net
• Powered by AlwaysWeather.net
• Brought to you by AlwaysWeather.net

The redirects could be in the form of adverts or in-text links. The AlwaysWeather.net network places those on websites to generate online traffic and present lots of content that website owners want to promote. Here is an example of an ad on a page of search results:

The Web traffic that accumulates can be monetized later from services like the one of this adware platform, or by using a pay-per-click plan.

The advertisements can be of mixed types, but all of them will have the same goal – making revenue for the adware and website owners. Advertisements connected to AlwaysWeather.net can be seen across the Internet as pop-ups, in-text links, pop-unders, banners, interstitial or transitional adverts. Other ad types are possible to show up, just as well.

AlwaysWeather.net – Data Collection and Tracking

The Privacy Policy of AlwaysWeather.net is nowhere to be found or at least not publicly visible, because it is missing from the main website. With the possibility of you being redirected, know that personal information about you will be extracted from every action you take while you have the hijacker. Despite that no privacy policy nor an end user license agreement of any sort show up, the Always Weather service still tracks you and collects information from you.

You can see that the AlwaysWeather.net site pushes various cookies to your PC from the image on the right.

The browser cookies that are dropped by the website and services of AlwaysWeather.net will definitely collect some information related to you and your internet activity. The frightening thing is that you do not know what kind of information is being collected. Beware, as all 3 cookies are related to the hijacker and collect data from you. As seen in the above snapshot, one of the cookies from the hijacker will stay up to 2 years if it’s not removed.

In conclusion, you should be quite careful of what information you provide to search engines and websites, and also, in the case you do not like personal information to be acquired from you by this browser hijacker or any of its related redirects, you should consider removing it.

Remove AlwaysWeather.net Effectively

To remove AlwaysWeather.net manually from your computer, follow the step-by-step removal tutorial provided below. In case this manual removal does not get rid of the ads completely, you should search for and remove any leftovers with an advanced anti-malware tool. Such an application can keep your computer secure in the future.

Manually delete AlwaysWeather.net from Windows and your browser

Note! Substantial notification about the AlwaysWeather.net threat: Manual removal of AlwaysWeather.net requires interference with system files and registries. Thus, it can cause damage to your PC. Even if your computer skills are not at a professional level, don’t worry. You can do the removal yourself just in 5 minutes, using a malware removal tool.

1. Remove or Uninstall AlwaysWeather.net in Windows

Remove or Uninstall AlwaysWeather.net in Windows.

Step 1: Remove/Uninstall AlwaysWeather.net in Windows

Here is a method in few easy steps to remove that program. No matter if you are using Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP, those steps will get the job done. Dragging the program or its folder to the recycle bin can be a very bad decision. If you do that, bits and pieces of the program get left behind, and that can lead to unstable work of your PC, mistakes with the file type associations and other unpleasant activities. The proper way to get a program off your computer is to Uninstall it. To do that:

Hold the Windows Logo Button and “R” on your keyboard. A Pop-up window will appear (fig.1).

In the field type in “appwiz.cpl” and press ENTER (fig.2).

This will open a window with all the programs installed on the PC.
Select the program that you want to remove, and press “Uninstall” (fig.3).

Follow the instructions above and you will successfully uninstall AlwaysWeather.net.

2. Remove AlwaysWeather.net from Your Browser and Your Registry Editor

Remove AlwaysWeather.net from Your Browser.

Remove a toolbar from Mozilla FirefoxRemove a toolbar from Google Chrome Remove a toolbar from Internet Explorer Remove a toolbar from Safari Fix registry entries created by AlwaysWeather.net on your PC.

Start Mozilla Firefox Open the menu window

Select the “Add-ons” icon from the menu

Select AlwaysWeather.net and click “Remove”

After AlwaysWeather.net is removed, restart Mozilla Firefox by closing it from the red “X” in the top right corner and start it again.

Start Google Chrome and Open the drop menu

Move the cursor over “Tools” and then from the extended menu choose “Extensions“

From the opened “Extensions” menu locate AlwaysWeather.net and click on the garbage bin icon on the right of it.

After AlwaysWeather.net is removed, restart Google Chrome by closing it from the red “X” in the top right corner and start it again.

Start Internet Explorer:

Click “‘Tools’ to open the drop menu and select ‘Manage Add-ons’

In the ‘Manage Add-ons’ window, make sure that in the first window ‘Add-on Types’, the drop menu ‘Show’ is on ‘All add-ons’

Select AlwaysWeather.net to remove, and then click ‘Disable’. A pop-up window will appear to inform you that you are about to disable the selected toolbar, and some additional toolbars might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and click ‘Disable’.

After AlwaysWeather.net has been removed, restart Internet Explorer by closing it from the red ‘X’ in the top right corner and start it again.

Start Safari

Open the drop menu by clicking on the sprocket icon in the top right corner.

From the drop menu select ‘Preferences’
In the new window select ‘Extensions’
Click once on AlwaysWeather.net
Click ‘Uninstall’

A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall AlwaysWeather.net. Select ‘Uninstall’ again, and the AlwaysWeather.net will be removed.

Some malicious scripts may modify the registry entries of your computer to change different settings. This is why manual clean up of your Windows Registry Database is strongly recommended. Since the tutorial on how to do this is a bit lenghty, we recommend following our instructive article about fixing registry entries.

Automatically remove AlwaysWeather.net by downloading an advanced anti-malware program

1. Remove AlwaysWeather.net with SpyHunter Anti-Malware Tool and back up your data

Remove AlwaysWeather.net with SpyHunter Anti-Malware Tool

1. Install SpyHunter to scan for and remove AlwaysWeather.net.2. Scan with SpyHunter to Detect and Remove AlwaysWeather.net. Back up your data to secure it against infections and file encryption by AlwaysWeather.net in the future.

Step 1:Click on the “Download” button to proceed to SpyHunter’s download page.

Download

Malware Removal Tool

It is highly recommended to run a scan before purchasing the full version of the software to make sure that the current version of the malware can be detected by SpyHunter.

Step 2: Guide yourself by the download instructions provided for each browser.
Step 3: After you have installed SpyHunter, wait for it to automatically update.

Step1: After the update process has finished, click on the ‘Scan Computer Now’ button.

Step2: After SpyHunter has finished scanning your PC for any AlwaysWeather.net files, click on the ‘Fix Threats’ button to remove them automatically and permanently.

Step3: Once the intrusions on your PC have been removed, it is highly recommended to restart it.

Back up your data to secure it against attacks in the future

IMPORTANT! Before reading the Windows backup instructions, we highly recommend to back up your data automatically with cloud backup and insure it against any type of data loss on your device, even the most severe. We recommend reading more about and downloading SOS Online Backup .

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Optional: Using Alternative Anti-Malware Tools

Remove AlwaysWeather.net Using Other Alternative Tools

STOPZilla Anti Malware

1. Download and Install STOPZilla Anti-malware to Scan for And Remove AlwaysWeather.net.
Step 1: Download STOPZilla by clicking here.
Step 2: A pop-up window will appear. Click on the ‘Save File’ button. If it does not, click on the Download button and save it afterwards.

Step 3: After you have downloaded the setup, simply open it.
Step 4: The installer should appear. Click on the ‘Next’ button.

Step 5: Check the ‘I accept the agreement’ check circle if not checked if you accept it and click the ‘Next’ button once again.

Step 6: Review and click on the ‘Install’ button.

Step 7: After the installation process has completed click on the ‘Finish’ button.

2. Scan your PC with STOPZilla Anti Malware to remove all AlwaysWeather.net associated files completely.
Step 1: Launch STOPZilla if you haven’t launched it after install.
Step 2: Wait for the software to automatically scan and then click on the ‘Repair Now’ button. If it does not scan automatically, click on the ‘Scan Now’ button.

Step 3: After the removal of all threats and associated objects, you should Restart your PC.

Berta Bilbao

Berta is the Editor-in-Chief of SensorsTechForum. She is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space.

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