Quick Local Weather Pop-ups - How to remove

Quick Local Weather is a browser add-on that sets search.hquicklocalweather.com as the home page. This new home page baffles some people who don’t remember installing the extension at all, but it’s meant to help people find weather conditions and forecasts easier — by simply following a link on their home page. It also interrupts your browsing be redirecting your searches and behaving like an adware virus.

Knowing the weather is, of course very practical – it can help plan activities, get ready for appropriate conditions, even avoid allergies. Many people use the internet to keep up with weather forecasts and they find that immensely useful. The problem with Quick Local Weather and the search.hquicklocalweather.com page is that the weather functionality is used as a disguise for the real goal of this application, which is to hijack the browser, get access to people’s browsing habits and history, and expose them to more ads than before.

Issues with Quick Local Weather

While Quick Local Weather can be used more-or-less without any issues, it’s safer to remove it from your browser. The add-on has some problems:

• Triggers anti-malware programs.
• Collects data about what you do online.
• Exposes you to a higher amount of advertising.
• Does not provide useful functionality.

This accusation on Quick Local Weather is supported by not only the many security programs that consider the application to be suspicious, but also by the fact that search.hquicklocalweather.com is an obvious clone of search.hweathernation.co, search.hweatherforecaster.com, search.hdopplerweatherradar.co, and many other pages just like that. All these add-ons do the same thing: they try to get you to use the search engine that they promote and they use their access to your search queries and browsing history to help advertisers decide what ads would be most effective on you.

This would be fine if Quick Local Weather provided good-quality functions that would make it worth being spied on. For example, a lot of people happily use Google’s free services despite Google putting ads in its search results and modifying people’s browsing experience based on their private information. But Quick Local Weather is not good enough — all that search.hquicklocalweather.com does for the user is a single page that replaces your home page. The page has a few links to weather websites — that’s it. Using this extension is worse than just saving the links in your bookmarks. Your plain browser is more useful and offers more customization than having search.hquicklocalweather.com hijacking your home page does.

For what little functionality Quick Local Weather provides, it changes settings a bit too much, especially on the Chrome browser. Making it harder to use any search engine other than the one on the search.quicklocalweather.com page, sometimes even displaying its own ads on other websites, unwanted pop-ups, and recording data about you — this behavior earns Quick Local Weather the label of a browser hijacker. Browser hijackers are created to look like normal browser extensions but exist mainly to display ads and are different from ad-supported software because they hardly even try to be helpful or useful.

So, even though Quick Local Weather is functional, it’s better to find a safer alternative. One that has a good-reputation developer standing behind it, substantive and candid reviews, and is honest about what it does and why.

How to remove Quick Local Weather

The add-on can easily be removed manually — the instructions are a little different for each browser, though. They are placed in the guide below.

The problem is, Quick Local Weather is distributed in some dishonest ways:

• It comes bundled with free programs and you might install it by accident.
• It’s advertised by adware that has already infected your computer.
• It’s installed by malware in the background without you even doing anything.

So, Quick Local Weather might not be the only problem with your browser or your computer. Check what other extensions you have installed, make sure that no notification spammer can latch onto your browser, and scan your device with professional and aggressive anti-malware tool, like Spyhunter or even Malwarebytes that can detect potentially unwanted and suspicious applications even if they don’t behave like malware — if you know how Quick Local Weather infected your computer, you can better avoid unsafe programs in the future.

Automatic Malware removal tools

How to remove Quick Local Weather using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Quick Local Weather Pop-ups install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Quick Local Weather . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Quick Local Weather Pop-ups easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Quick Local Weather from macOS

Delete Quick Local Weather Pop-ups from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Quick Local Weather app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Quick Local Weather Pop-ups and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Quick Local Weather, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Quick Local Weather Pop-ups from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Quick Local Weather. Click on the trash bin icon next to Quick Local Weather Pop-ups or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Quick Local Weather, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Quick Local Weather Pop-ups from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Quick Local Weather related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Quick Local Weather Pop-ups, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Quick Local Weather Pop-ups from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Quick Local Weather. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Quick Local Weather Pop-ups or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Quick Local Weather from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Quick Local Weather Pop-ups. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Quick Local Weather, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari.
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.