Hweatherdiscover.com Hijacker - How to remove

Hweatherdiscover.com appears in the browser as the new tab replacement. It comes with the Weather Discover extension. In theory, Hweatherdiscover.com helps you access weather resources. In reality, it is adware in the form of a browser hijacker. And Hweatherdiscover.com’s weather forecasting functionality is terrible. It’s best to remove this hijacker and check your computer for any other suspicious programs.

Details on Hweatherdiscover.com:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker.
How Hweatherdiscover.com gets installed	Advertised online, bundled with free programs.
Problems caused by the hijacker	The new tab page is replaced by Hweatherdiscover.com, searches from the new tab are redirected to Yahoo.com, it is still inconvenient to access weather information, the sites that Hweatherdiscover.com promotes are potentially harmful.
How to remove Hweatherdiscover.com	Uninstall suspicious browser extensions, including Weather Discover, block notifications from unwanted websites, scan your device with an anti-malware program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others.

How to remove the Hweatherdiscover.com new tab

Uninstall the Weather Discover extension from your browser: open the affected browser, open its main menu, go to Settings, Extensions, and click Remove on Weather Discover. Or just right-click Weather Discover’s icon next to the address bar and press on Remove.

Look for other suspicious extensions and uninstall them, too. You can recognize them by their permissions, which you can see by checking an extension’s details. They might be like Hweatherdiscover.com or Speedtest-guide.com and ask to change your new tab page. Or they might be like Videoz-searchs.com and try to replace your default search engine, instead.

Or you could scan your computer with an anti-malware program, like Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and others. They can sniff out the browser hijackers and tell you about them.

Check out this linked post if you find that Weather Discover refuses to be removed.

Also, disable notifications from Hweatherdiscover.com and from Weatherdiscover.com. Notifications are little pop-ups that websites can send to your browser. Hweatherdiscover.com promoted a bunch of other sites that also like to abuse notifications to show ads, so keep blocking sites until new notifications stop coming.

How Weather Discover gets installed

Weatherdiscover.com is advertised online and anyone can visit it to be offered to install Hweatherdiscover.com (and to subscribe to Weatherdiscover.com’s notifications so that it can deliver ads straight to your browser). People could find Weatherdiscover.com when they search for specific weather sites. Ads for Weatherdiscover.com appear above genuine search results, so some people just go ahead and install Hweatherdiscover.com.

Hweatherdiscover.com may come bundled with a free program. Some installers are bundlers – they carry not just the program that’s on the tin, but also a few “optional offers” – additional programs that you did not ask for or know about when downloading the installer. Those who install programs without delving into advanced and custom settings risk inviting junkware.

It is possible to install Hweatherdiscover.com straight from the extension stores. I think it is unlikely that anyone did, though. Despite having over six thousand users, Weather Discover has not a single review or rating. This probably means that those who installed Hweatherdiscover.com don’t even know about it. Which means that people don’t seek it out themselves. And why would they? Hweatherdiscover.com is not good or helpful. There is no good reason to install it.

The problems with Hweatherdiscover.com

Hweatherdiscover.com is a very low-effort browser extension whose implementation is unsuitable for its main purpose – connecting the user with various resources on weather.

Here are some of my problems with Hweatherdiscover.com:

• It is slow and clunky to use. Hweatherdiscover.com replaces the new tab page of the browser. To “check today’s weather forecast”, I need to open the new tab page and then click a link on it so that yet another new tab can load.
• Hweatherdiscover.com features a bunch of links to sites that are just full of clickbait. They also ask to send notifications to your browser (do not agree to that!). The main weather forecast link also loads a clickbait site.
• Weather Discover can read your browsing history. This and other data is used to help advertisers connect with you.
• The developer of Weather Discover is also the owner of the clickbait sites that Hweatherdiscover.com promotes (Thenewscorner.org, Nationalweatheragency.org, and others).

As you can see, Hweatherdiscover.com is meant to expose its users to more advertisements. Access to people’s browsers allows more data about their habits to be collected, which then can be used to target those advertisements better.

Hweatherdiscover.com’s weather functionality is severely lacking and inconvenient. I suggest that you remove Weather Discover and instead either install a reputable browser extension for adding weather forecasts to the browser (look for one with lots of reviews), or find your favorite weather site and save it on your new tab.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Uninstall browser extensions

TopHow To remove Hweatherdiscover.com Hijacker 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 Hweatherdiscover.com Hijacker, 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 Hweatherdiscover.com Hijacker 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 Hweatherdiscover.com Hijacker 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 Hweatherdiscover.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.
  
• 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 Hweatherdiscover.com Hijacker 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 Hweatherdiscover.com Hijacker, 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.