How to remove Weather Hub

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What is Weather Hub?

Weather Hub is a potentially unwanted program that promotes as a weather forecast tool. Though, it’s not a virus, this deceptive application can significantly diminish your browsing experience and even system security. After installation, Weather Hub forcibly assigns your homepage and default search engine to search.yourweatherhub.com. The fake altered search results, producing by this app, have no benefits for users in comparison to the legitimate search engine like Google or Yahoo. Weather Hub delivers a variety of commercial ads that often hide underlying content. Beware from clicking them as they often point to insecure Internet pages. Furthermore, it is able to track user’s browsing habits in order to share with third parties. Needless to say, you should uninstall Weather Hub browser hijacker immediately.

Weather Hub ads

  1. STEP 1: Scan your computer with Removal Tool

  2. STEP 2: Uninstall Weather Hub from Control Panel

  3. STEP 3: Remove Weather Hub from browsers

How Weather Hub infects your PC?

Weather Hub infiltrates the system using a deceptive marketing method called “bundling”. The PUP (potentially unwanted program) is bundled with other free application that you can download from the Internet. Unfortunately, majority of charge-free software don’t  properly notify that other software will also be installed. To prevent your computer from infection we advise you to be careful and never rush when you install the software. Always opt for the “Custom/Advanced” settings and never agree to install additional unnecessary programs. Remember, the key to computer safety is caution. If you have already infected, you should use this guide to remove Weather Hub malware from your computer.

How to remove Weather Hub from your computer?

Such types of adware can be hard to remove completely as they always leave their leftovers files and registry entries. This is done in order to be able to restore. I want to make it clear that this may require above-average skills to remove adware, so if you have no experience in this area, you may use automatic removal tool.

  1. SpyHunter – it scans your computer and detects various threats like Weather Hub, then removes it with all of the related malicious files, folders and registry keys. One of the best features of this program – large threat’s database. After deep scanning of your system, it will easily find and delete Weather Hub. Use this removal tool to get rid of Weather Hub for FREE.

    2. Download Norton windows compatible

  2. Norton 360 Antimalware – this program will help you to get rid of Weather Hub. It can find malicious program that is corrupting your system and clean up junk files after removal.

    3. Download MalwareBytes

How to remove Weather Hub manually

Step 1: Remove Weather Hub from Control Panel

Perhaps Weather Hub does not have program related to it in Application menu. Nevertheless, you need to review attentively the list of installed applications and remove all suspicious apps.

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start button and open Control Panel.
  2. Click Add or Remove Programs.
  3. Find and select Weather Hub or other program associated with it.
  4. Click Uninstall.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start and open Control Panel.
  2. Click Uninstall a Program.
  3. Locate Weather Hub or other program associated with it.
  4. Click Uninstall.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu and click Search.
  2. Go to Apps.
  3. Open the Control Panel.
  4. Then click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  5. Try to find Weather Hub or other program associated with it.
  6. Click Uninstall.

Windows 10:

  1. Click on the Start button in the lower-left corner
  2. Select the Settings on the left pane of Start menu.
  3. In the next window, click on System.
  4. Choose App & features on the left pane of window.
  5. Find and select Weather Hub or other program associated with it.
  6. Click Uninstall.

Weather Hub won’t uninstall

Sometimes you just can’t uninstall Weather Hub, using the above-mentioned method. The malware, defending itself, blocks all attempts to uninstall it. Therefore, you should call on the Safe Mode to solve the problem:

For Windows XP, Vista, 7

  1. Reeboot your computer;
  2. Repeatedly tap F8 at the start of the boot-up process;
  3. Select Safe Mode with arrow buttons;
  4. Once launched, remove Weather Hub, using a standart way.

For Windows 8/8.1 and 10

  1. Press Windows Key + I to open the Settings window;
  2. Press and hold the Shift key as you click the Restart option under the power button;
  3. Click Troubleshoot then open Advanced Options. In this window click on Startup Settings and click Restart;
  4. Choose Safe Mode type on the Startup Settings screen;
  5. Once launched, remove Weather Hub, using a standart way.

Now let’s go to the next step.

Step 2: Remove Weather Hub from browsers

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner.
  3. Click Tools then select Extensions.
  4. Find Weather Hub or other extensions that look suspicious.
  5. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Click Tools on the top of the Firefox window, then click Add-ons.
  3. Find Weather Hub or other extensions that look suspicious.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click Tools or Gear icon, and then click Manage Add-ons.
  3. Right click Weather Hub and select Disable.
  4. Right click Weather Hub again and select Remove.

Safari:

  1. Click Preferences from Safari menu
  2. Select Extensions.
  3. Find Weather Hub or other extensions that look suspicious.
  4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Microsoft Edge:

  1. Launch Microsoft Edge.
  2. Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner.
  3. Select Weather Hub and click Remove button.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Weather Hub:

Remove following registry entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{814664b0-d93b-4da6-9216-722c56179397-Weather Hub}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{814664b0-d93b-4da6-9216-Weather Hub722c56179397}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Activation Technologies\AdminObject\Weather Hub\55c92734-d682-4d71-983e-d6ec3f16059f
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects Weather Hub
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{814664b0-d93b-4da6-9216-722c56179397 Weather Hub}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Weather Hub
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{814664b0-d93b-4da6-9216-722c56179397-Weather Hub}

Remove following files:

%ProgramFiles%\Weather Hub\icon.ico
%ProgramFiles%\Weather Hub\Weather Hub.crx
%ProgramFiles%\Weather Hub\Weather Hub.dll
%Windows%\Weather Hub\Weather Hub.xpi
%system32%\Weather Hub\ Personal-browser.com64.dll
%appdata%\roaming\Weather Hub\Uninst.exe
%SystemDrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\StateData\RacWmiDataBookmarks.dat
%SystemDrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\StateData\RacWmiEventData.dat
%AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\RAC\StateData\RacWmiDataBookmarks.dat
%AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\RAC\StateData\RacWmiEventData.dat

Remove following folders

%ProgramFiles%\Weather Hub
%appdata%\roaming\Weather Hub
%system32%\Weather Hub
%Windows%\Weather Hub

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