Weather It Up

Posted: April 15, 2014

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Ranking:	1,862
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	19,603

First Seen:	April 15, 2014
Last Seen:	October 17, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Weather It Up is a weather forecast utility that's been categorized as adware, due to its features for launching additional advertising content. Although Weather It Up may provide some functions of use to you, its history primarily is one of installations that occur automatically, along with attempts to block its uninstallation after the fact. So far, the evidence is weighted towards deleting Weather It Up being the safest option for your PC, and malware researchers recommend making liberal use of anti-malware tools to verify that Weather It Up's removal goes more smoothly than this add-on would prefer.

Why the Online Forecast is for Perpetual Advertisements

Weather It Up is a Crossrider-based add-on for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides weather-monitoring functions, but also injects ads into your Web browser. Although a trivial amount of advertising content would be an understandable price to pay for Weather It Up's features, malware researchers took note of Weather It Up generously using multiple formats of invasive advertising, including additional search results, injected text links, video advertisements and interstitial advertisements. These forms of advertisement content may create accessibility problems with the affected Web pages and frequently are responsible for poor browser performance.

Weather It Up advertisements also run the risk of exposing your browser to online hoaxes, possible threat installers and phishing attacks that attempt to acquire sensitive information. You can prevent attacks from most of these PC threats through the use of strong anti-malware security combined with common sense, but removing the associated adware always is advised for your online safety. Some other security concerns malware experts have with Weather It Up include its self-launching function, as well as its function for updating itself automatically, which could add other features besides the ones noted here.

An Online Weather Report without Any Advertisements Required

Since there are many examples of Internet weather utilities that don't require you to subject your browser to invasive changes, deleting Weather It Up add-ons always should be considered as the preferential and safest response to it. Traditionally, most adware programs with particularly poor reputations will try to block their deletion, and Weather It Up, unfortunately, also falls into this category. However, malware experts have not found any defensive functions associated with Weather It Up that would block its deletion through competent anti-malware applications.

Although Weather It Up is still being analyzed for its installation strategies, adware may be installed by a bundle that includes one or more applications. By far the most common distribution points for these bundles are free software websites and networks, although malware experts occasionally see other threats installing adware and other PUPs. A safe PC user who keeps his browser from loading potentially threatening or illicit content will have few if any chance exposures to Weather It Up or similar advertising add-ons.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:

C:\Program Files\weather it up\utils.exe MD5: 7f44d95a3983d98f793820ebdf19c3f4

File name: C:\Program Files\weather it up\utils.exe MD5: 7f44d95a3983d98f793820ebdf19c3f4
Mime Type: unknown/exe MD5: 7f44d95a3983d98f793820ebdf19c3f4
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\weather it up\Weather It Up-bg.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\weather it up\Weather It Up-bg.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\weather it up\Weather It Up-bho.dll

File name: C:\Program Files\weather it up\Weather It Up-bho.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\weather it up\Weather It Up-bho64.dll

File name: C:\Program Files\weather it up\Weather It Up-bho64.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\weather it up\Weather It Up-buttonutil.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\weather it up\Weather It Up-buttonutil.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-buttonutil64.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-buttonutil64.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-chromeinstaller.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-chromeinstaller.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-codedownloader.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-codedownloader.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-enabler.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-enabler.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-firefoxinstaller.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-firefoxinstaller.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-updater.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\Weather It Up-updater.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file