Weather Inspect Ads
Posted: July 26, 2017
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.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
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.
| Ranking: | 13,420 |
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| Threat Level: | 2/10 |
| Infected PCs: | 3,354 |
| First Seen: | July 26, 2017 |
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| Last Seen: | February 14, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Weather Inspect is a desktop widget, which provides users with the current weather conditions in a selected area, as well as a forecast for a few days ahead. While this feature works as promised, the installation of the Weather Inspect also may result in some unwanted changes, which might have a negative impact on the user's Web browsing experience. The Weather Inspect software may insert unwanted advertisements in the user's Web browser, therefore making money for the company or person affiliated with these paid ads. The good news is that this action is not unsafe, but it is certainly not something that should be tolerated, considering that adware applications are known for their excessive use of unreliable ads especially, which may lure users into paying for low-quality services or products.
The Weather Inspect software may create multiple executable files and drop them in various system folders silently, therefore making it difficult for the average user to identify and remove manually all executables responsible for the ads they see in their Web browser. Thankfully, the removal of the Weather Inspect adware is a not a task that should be carried out manually, and users affected by this annoying software can use a credible security scanner to find and remove the files linked to this low-level threat quickly.
To avoid having to deal with troublemakers like the Weather Inspect in the future, you should be more careful when downloading free software. Often, free computer programs may be bundled with offers to install 3rd-party software like the Weather Inspect, and many users might agree to install software of this sort accidentally. This is why you should remember to read the installation instructions carefully whenever you work with new programs and decline any offers to install 3rd-party utilities that are not reputable.
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