Weather Forecaster Toolbar - How to remove

Some people have noticed an unwanted extension called Weather Forecaster having taken over their browser, others installed it themselves because it looked useful. Then they find themselves unable to remove it. Weather Forecaster is a suspicious browser toolbar that modifies browser settings to force you to see ads and have your online activities tracked.

This isn’t the first time that a browser extension has turned out to be unfriendly to the user. Weather Forecaster is even milder than some browser extensions out there: a crypto-miner called FacexWorm is capable of stealing cryptocurrency and various login credentials. But that doesn’t excuse Weather Forecaster for being dishonest and malicious.

Weather Forecaster, once installed, replaces your home page with search.hweatherforecaster.com, which has a few links to various weather-related websites — something that you could accomplish yourself better by bookmarking your favorite weather forecasting sites.

Weather Forecaster is developed by Eightpoint Technologies (Polarity Technologies). This company has probably released hundreds of browser hijackers, most of which look almost exactly like Weather Forecaster: a search box in the middle (that leads to Yahoo), a few links below it, and a toolbar with a few links. Compare the home page that Weather Forecaster sets to the home page of Search.heasyspeedtestapp.com, Search.hfreeonlineradioapp2.com, Search.bestfileconverter.com — they look exactly the same.

The risks of using Weather Forecaster

Here’s what you can expect if you use Weather Forecaster:

• Your online activity will be tracked.
• Data about you will be shared with third parties.
• You won’t be able to comfortably search the web using your usual search engine if it isn’t Yahoo.
• Your search results will often be filled with poorly labeled and irrelevant advertisements.

To be fair, Weather Forecaster is not the worst extension out there. It’s mild adware and definitely unwanted, apps like it are detected by quite a few antivirus programs, but it’s not really a virus. It just uses dishonest tactics to trick people into becoming a stable audience for advertisements. The Weather Forecaster page is just unintrusive enough that people can tolerate it and might even think that it’s normal.

A web browser is an important program: it is always on when we’re browsing the web, it can remember our passwords, it reads and displays all the content that we view. That’s why it’s important to only allow trustworthy and honest extensions to have access to our browsers. Excessive permissions, a lack of transparency from the developer, poor reviews, the extension being unlisted are all red flags to watch out for when you’re deciding if an extension is safe.

How to remove Weather Forecaster

If you can’t uninstall it even though you have tried, chances are you have some malware infecting your computer. Scan it using a reputable antivirus program (Spyhunter, or another one that you trust) or go through your list of installed programs, research them, and remove the ones that are known for being malware, PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), etc.

Weather Forecaster and applications like it are constantly distributed by adware viruses and malicious ads. If you find yourself infected with adware, it won’t take long to be recommended one of Eightpoint’s extensions. So, it wouldn’t be a surprise if, if you had Weather Forecaster installed, you had more suspicious software on your computer.

Removing the program that installed Weather Forecaster won’t remove it, so you still need to do that. You can follow the guide below, there are instructions for each browser. Check your list of installed extensions and see if they can all be trusted.

In the future, remember to be careful with any free software — often freeware comes with bundles that include PUPs and even malware, and they can get installed without you even noticing. If you do suspect a virus infecting your device, don’t delay and look for solutions immediately, before it causes any real problems.

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How to remove Weather Forecaster using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Weather Forecaster Toolbar 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 Weather Forecaster . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Weather Forecaster Toolbar 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 Weather Forecaster from macOS

Delete Weather Forecaster Toolbar from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Weather Forecaster 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.

TopHow To remove Weather Forecaster Toolbar from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser 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.

How To remove Weather Forecaster Toolbar from Firefox:Top

• 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 Weather Forecaster Toolbar 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.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Weather Forecaster, 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.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Weather Forecaster Toolbar from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Weather Forecaster Toolbar, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• 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.

How to remove Weather Forecaster Toolbar from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Weather Forecaster and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Weather Forecaster Toolbar, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on 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.