Weatheronlinenow.com - How to remove

Weatheronlinenow.com is a new tab page that gets installed by a browser extension called Weather Online Now. Weatheronlinenow.com promotes ad-filled clickbait sites, redirects searches to Yahoo, and hijacks the new tab page. If you regularly see Weatheronlinenow.com in your browser, you can stop that by removing the Weather Online Now extension. It’s advisable to let an antivirus app check your device, too.

In short about Weatheronlinenow.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker, potentially unwanted program (PUP).
How Weather Online Now gets installed	Promoted online, especially by other adware and browser hijackers, bundled with free applications as an optional offer.
Problems with Weatheronlinenow.com	Promotes adware, unnecessarily takes over the new tab page, gets installed deceptively.
Removing Weatheronlinenow.com	Uninstall Weather Online Now, scan your computer with antivirus programs (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others), block notification spam.

How Weatheronlinenow.com gets installed

Weatheronlinenow.com is a new tab extension that should probably be removed. It does do some things to help you keep up with the weather, however, it also has some problems that make it potentially harmful.

Weather Online Now gets installed on browsers, possibly without the user’s permission. This is possible thanks to deceptive installation tactics:

• Misleading ads – advertisements that don’t make it clear that a browser extension is about to be installed.
• Pop-up ads and redirects – ads that switch out one installation for another, confusing users.
• Bundling – when one program’s installer also installs additional extensions and apps, sometimes without the user’s permission.

The result of these deceptive practices is that some people didn’t know about Weatheronlinenow.com until they saw it hijacking their browser.

Weatheronlinenow.com doesn’t spread alone. It can arrive together with Protectmysearchonline.com (which is made by Ito Media, the same company as the made behind Weather Online Now), Weather Waves, WeatherBlink, etc.

Weather Online Now changes your browser settings so that Weatheronlinenow.com is the new tab page. Other browser hijackers also change your new tab page (the earlier changes are overwritten by the newer ones) or they change your search settings.

Problems and issues

Besides shady installation, Weatheronlinenow.com has a few other problems worth discussing.

The Weatheronlinenow.com new tab page promotes some ad-filled sites. Links to a few clickbait sites are featured prominently on the Weatheronlinenow.com homepage. Newstrackerdaily.com and Myemailexplorer.com stand out. Newstrackerdaily.com pushes notification spam and it almost entirely composed of a Taboola feed. Myemailexplorer.com also too many ads by Taboola.

Showing that many ads and ad-filled sites is bad for user experience. It wastes time and causes confusion. And it doesn’t add anything to Weatheronlinenow.com. All it does is create traffic and make money for those adware sites.

Also, Weatheronlinenow.com has a search box in the middle of the new tab page. This box serves for web search, however, it opens Search.yahoo.com and ignores your search engine preferences. Yahoo redirects are extremely common among browser hijackers, so it’s not surprising that Weatheronlinenow.com does it, too.

To be able to promote all those sites, Weatheronlinenow.com hijacks the browser’s new tab page. It would be much more convenient if Weather Online Now existed as just an extension pop-up, that is, a pop-up that appears when you click on the extension icon. As it exists now, Weatheronlinenow.com only restricts browser customization – all so that it can deliver ads more easily.

Sure, Weatheronlinenow.com does offer a weather widget and a few relevant links to weather forecasting-related websites. But that does not make up for its issues. That’s why Weatheronlinenow.com can be considered a potentially unwanted program and even adware.

Weather Online Now needs to be uninstalled for Weatheronlinenow.com to be removed. This is simple to do, even Weatheronlinenow.com has a link to a page with instructions. In your browser, open the settings page, find the link that says “Extensions”, and you will be taken to a page that lists all of the extensions that are installed on your browser. This page allows you to review the details of each of your extensions, as well as to disable them or remove them.

You can also use an antivirus app, like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or others. An antivirus scan would show you what suspicious items are present on your computer. Not just malware, but potentially unwanted software like Weather Online Now.

If you get notifications on your screen (little pop-ups in the corner of your browser), visit this post on how to block web push notifications. Some sites use them as a more intrusive version of email spam, but you can just block them.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove browser extensions

TopRemoving Weatheronlinenow.com 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 Weatheronlinenow.com . Click on the trash bin icon next to Weatheronlinenow.com 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 Weatheronlinenow.com , 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.

How to remove Weatheronlinenow.com 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 Weatheronlinenow.com. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Weatheronlinenow.com 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 Weatheronlinenow.com 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 Weatheronlinenow.com 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 Weatheronlinenow.com, 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.