SysWeatherAlert Ads
Posted: April 21, 2016
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
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Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 199 |
First Seen: | April 21, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | May 2, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
SysWeatherAlert is a tiny application that shows accurate weather information to the PC users. Its developers promote it as a helpful program with a user-friendly design that doesn't require a lot of resources for its processes. SysWeatherAlert may indeed give you valuable weather forecasts about a city of your choice, but there are various reasons that you should consider before agreeing to install SysWeatherAlert. This plugin is ad-supported. The people behind SysWeatherAlert have not hidden this feature. They have written on the official page that their product is free to use, and relies on Web ads to keep its license free. However, the commercial materials that may be inserted by SysWeatherAlert may insert tend to be far more aggressive than the majority of PC users may expect. After the entrance of this adware, SysWeatherAlert may create a lot of pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads, video ads and hyperlinked words. These commercial materials may appear everywhere and not just when you open shopping sites. Moreover, SysWeatherAlert may be cross-compatible, which means that SysWeatherAlert may affect Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer at the same time.. SysWeatherAlert may change parts of the configuration automatically. As a result, you may notice a different homepage, which may be some e-commerce platform or an untrustworthy search engine. SysWeatherAlert also may interact with your searches even when you use legitimate providers like Google or Bing. SysWeatherAlert may include a variety of sponsored links, typically placed in the front positions. Some of the commercial materials may be deals and coupons relevant to your taste because SysWeatherAlert may track your surfing history. However, some of the promoted pages may be threatening, so you should proceed with great caution. The loading of marketing elements may cause annoying functionality issues. You should delete SysWeatherAlert with a credible security solution to remove the ads and fix all side effects that may accompany their presence.
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:SysWeatherAlert
File name: SysWeatherAlertSize: 2.59 MB (2597751 bytes)
MD5: 1a49b4ee8043a9b50ea8aa550d1d5a02
Detection count: 59
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 8, 2020
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\sysweatheralert.comSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION\SysWeatherAlert.exeSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ProcessSysWeatherAlertSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SysWeatherAlertSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION\SysWeatherAlert.exeSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ProcessSysWeatherAlertSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SysWeatherAlert
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