Wonderful Weather Add on: A Malevolent Adware Program in disguise

Wonderful Weather is a malicious adware program disguised as weather app. The app deceives user by claiming to offer assistance with weather related content. This information however comes for a price. Along with the weather facts, the app bombards the screen with ads and suspicious links. Annoyance with the intrusive ads is not the only aim of this pernicious adware program.

The adware is designed with the purpose to spy on user’s browsing activity and generate most appropriate ads to attract their attention. Fraudsters earn a couple of cents for each click the user makes. Apart from this the adware is also capable to steal user sensitive information which can be sold to the third parties. Hence, the sole motive behind it is money.

Also the ads generated by Wonderful Weather are intrusive, and accidental click on them may pave way to other threats installation. So the infestation of this malware encounters you with an endless array of negatives. It is therefore important to get rid of this OS infection as soon as possible.
How does Wonderful Weather invade the system?



Adware applications turn to deception to invade. So does Wonderful Weather. The nasty adware program infiltrates with the freeware program such as games, videos, audios, apps etc which users install blindly without going through the supporting documents related to the application. The infection is bundled to the payload files of these free software, information of which is not disclosed to the users if the user installs these applications using recommended settings. It is therefore always advised to go for Advanced/ Custom settings and select programs that are obligatory.

The malware may also proliferate via spam email attachments. The vicious adware exploits users’ carelessness and dupes them into allowing its installation.

Mounting third party devices like USB, drives, CD, DVD, SD cards etc without proper scanning may also pave way for this virus.

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