Severe Weather Check - How to remove

Severe Weather Check is a free browser extension that is supposed to provide you with weather forecast in your location. When you are adding it to the extensions list on your web browser, it clearly says that this free tool can read and change all your data on the websites that you visit and replace the page that you see when opening a new tab. However, chances are that you won’t see this notification because Severe Weather Check gets installed behind the back without even warning you about that.

That’s because this extension is malicious – it is listed as a browser hijacker and it will bring various unwanted consequences. It will do much more than promised, but almost all activities of this tool are deceptive or even dangerous. To put it straight – you won’t get any benefits out of Severe Weather Check, but it will definitely make your web browsing experience worse.

What might be even more irritating – Severe Weather Check is difficult to remove. Especially, if you are just a regular computer user with no anti-malware tools in your hands. Luckily you have found a way to this article because here we will teach you how to remove Severe Weather Check from your computer. Also, we will let you know how to improve the security of your system in order to assure that this won’t happen again.

Why Severe Weather Check Is Malicious

You already know that Severe Weather Check is being distributed using deceptive methods and can be added to your web browser even if you are not aware of this happening. Most of the time it comes bundled to other software that you can download from the Internet. It is a hands-down most popular way to distribute malware like this. So next time you install some freeware downloaded from the Internet – be very careful. During the installation, you should pay close attention to all details and opt out for a custom installation mode if possible. It would be even better if you kept your computer secured with reliable anti-malware software. Those programs feature vast virus databases and are capable of detecting various malware infections on the go.

If you were unfortunate and Severe Weather Check is already operating on your computer, it will change your new tab page on the infected web browser right away. It will be set to www.severeweathercheck.com and from now on, you will be visiting this website every time a new tab is opened. As promised, it features weather forecast, but it’s actually not really useful – you can get more accurate and more detailed forecasts just in a few seconds, without installing an additional extension on your computer.

Also, you will soon notice that there is a search field, which should allow you to search the web faster and deliver better results. Unfortunately, none of that is true. There is no unique search engine, they will simply redirect you to Yahoo and display results there. However, there is a trick – they will collect all your search queries, alongside other private information. This data can be leaked really easily, so by keeping Severe Weather Check installed on your browser, you risk losing your data to other cyber criminals. In addition to that, you will be exposed to various advertisements and sponsored results, that can be not related to your search queries at all. This way you will waste your own time and might visit unreliable websites.

Last but not least, your system might run slower due to the presence of Severe Weather Check or it might be infected with other viruses. There are tons of browser hijackers, such as Search.terraarcade.com, mp3andvideoconverter.com, or Search-me.club and they all are looking to get some new users.

Severe Weather Check Removal

After hearing all these facts, you are probably interested in removing Severe Weather Check from your computer. The ultimate way to do that is to scan your system with Spyhunter – either one of those programs should instantly detect and automatically remove the virus from your computer.

Obviously, you can do that manually as well. However, this process might be tricky and it will take some time. If you have no idea how to do it – scroll down below the article and take a look at step-by-step instructions on how to remove Severe Weather Check. Also, feel free to ask us questions related to this topic in the comments section below.

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How to remove Severe Weather Check using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Severe Weather Check install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Severe Weather Check . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Severe Weather Check easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Severe Weather Check from macOS

Delete Severe Weather Check from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Severe Weather Check app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Severe Weather Check 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 Severe Weather Check, 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 Severe Weather Check 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 Severe Weather Check 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 Severe Weather Check, 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 Severe Weather Check 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 Severe Weather Check, 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 Severe Weather Check from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Severe Weather Check and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Severe Weather Check, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.