Myweatherradartab.com Hijacker - How to remove

Myweatherradartab.com is a newtab virus – it gets forced on the browser by an extension called Local Weather Forecast. After replacing the new tab page, Myweatherradartab.com links to weather sites, as well as to a lot of adware sites. It also reads user data, such as what you search for and which search results you click on. In the end, Myweatherradartab.com can be considered adware and almost malware.

Myweatherradartab.com in short:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
How Myweatherradartab.com works	Uses notifications to show pop-up ads, replaces the new tab, links to ads and shady sites.
How hijackers get installed	Advertised online, promoted by other hijackers and by adware infections.
Removing Myweatherradartab.com	Uninstall Local Weather Forecast and other hijackers, use antivirus scanners (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others) to find and remove other suspicious items, restore browser settings, including notification settings.

How Myweatherradartab.com affects the browser

Replaces the new tab

In theory, Myweatherradartab.com (Local Weather Forecast) provides links to weather forecast websites in an easily accessible spot in your web browser. In reality, it hijacks the browser and fills the new tab with ads.

Myweatherradartab.com replaces the new tab in the browser. The new tab page is the page that serves as a sort of entryway between the computer and the internet. It usually includes a search box and links to favorite and most frequented websites. So, Myweatherradartab.com taking over gives it a lot of power: power over internet searches, a free audience for advertisements, and data on the browsing habits of Myweatherradartab.com’s users.

Redirects and ads

Myweatherradartab.com has a search box in the middle of the page that leads to Yahoo, ignoring your default search engine preferences. According to Myweatherradartab.com’s privacy policy, the extension may log your search activity, including which ads you click on. This is valuable data for advertisers who want to be able to target ads to your interests.

There are a lot of links on Myweatherradartab.com that lead to various “useful” websites, such as a news site, an email site, a maps site, a couple of ads, and a couple of weather websites. All but the last are ads, some of them have a lot of clickbait. That icon that looks like Gmail – it leads to clickbait. The red and white button that sort of looks like Youtube – that goes to a clickbait site, too.

Meanwhile, your frequently visited and pinned sites just disappear off of the new tab. Myweatherradartab.com is very disruptive to those who relied on the new tab to quickly access their favorite sites.

The weather links that Myweatherradartab.com promotes, like Pollen.com and Accuweather.com, are fine. Their links can be found in the top-right menu on Myweatherradartab.com.

How Local Weather Forecast gets installed

Local Weather Forecast can be installed from Weatherdiscover.com. It gets recommended by other hijackers, such as Stheweatherpilot.com and Hweatherdiscover.com. It can also be bundled with free programs, advertised online, and promoted by adware infections.

During the installation, Myweatherradartab.com asks to send notifications that can be used to advertise more browser hijackers.

Search hijackers – browser extensions that change not your new tab, but your address bar and your default search engine – get bundled with hijackers like Weatherdiscover.com.

By now, Myweatherradartab.com has over eighty thousand users on the Chrome Web Store. It is likely that many of them have no idea about Myweatherradartab.com being installed. One way that happens is when multiple new tab hijackers get installed at once and they overwrite each other’s effects.

Some people “solve” hijackers like Myweatherradartab.com by installing another new tab extension on top. That helps but it’s not the ideal solution. It’s better to just uninstall Local Weather Forecast and other unwanted browser extensions.

How to remove Myweatherradartab.com

A quick checklist:

• Uninstall Local Weather Forecast.
• Check your other extensions and remove the ones that look suspicious.
• Check the apps and programs that were installed at the same time as Myweatherradartab.com showed up.
• Check browser settings, especially notification settings. Block notifications from unwanted sites.

Uninstalling Local Weather Forecast should be simple enough, provided that it does not abuse Chrome policies. The instructions for each browser are below.

Also, scan your computer with an antivirus app, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or others to check your apps, files, and extensions. While removing Myweatherradartab.com, it is advisable to check the other extensions. What do they do? Do you use them? Do you remember installing them? If they’re at all suspicious, disable or remove them for now.

Instructions for changing browser settings can be found below, except for the notification (pop-up) settings – those can be found in this post.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopHow To remove Myweatherradartab.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 Myweatherradartab.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 Myweatherradartab.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 Myweatherradartab.com, 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.

How To remove Myweatherradartab.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 Myweatherradartab.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 Myweatherradartab.com Hijacker, 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.