Remove Weather messaging Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Weather messaging push notifications appear when you do not expect, bothering and annoying you. However, that is way more than simple pop-up ads – their essence is clearly malicious, and they can bring other malware to your PC. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Weather messaging push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Weather messaging pop-ups will be ineffective at best. At worst, the sites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also advertise fake online shopping websites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

It is better to prevent, than repair and repent!

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What are Weather messaging push notifications?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-ups and Weather messaging notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the new articles, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.

Short summary of the Weather-messaging.com pop-up ads:

Weather messaging pop-up advertisements, as opposed, have a deal with unlegit sites. You will generally see the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-DDoS check. Alternatively, the web pages can refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these pop-ups. These requirements should raise suspicion, as sites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this requirement is a reason to leave the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Weather messaging push notification.

How does it work?

The majority of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they like. It may be a promotion of the product or a page listed on this particular website, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will direct you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was built in.

Scoundrels bear on this feature in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of banners of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Weather messaging popups you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user can be trapped by several pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a miserable pay for one person, but when you have a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite the majority of such ads are ineffective, it may still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Weather messaging pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up ads. Weather-messaging.com website is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately throw tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these pop-up ads carry.

As any other thing related to illegal ads, Weather messaging pop-up advertisements don’t have legit offers. Even when hackers make the banners similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-ups promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Weather messaging pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Weather messaging pop-ups?

Fortunately, Weather messaging pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They reside in the browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I pointed out above, some pop-up ads can deliver malicious programs to your system. It is nearly impossible to predict all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. Thus, after removing the source of the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, but they still appeared. This situation may point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware checkup purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and advanced detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

Reset your browsers manually

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps:

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions:

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

After choosing this option, you will see the next message:

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option:


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:

When the browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines²:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Scan your system for possible viruses

After removing the Weather messaging push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.