WeatherBlink redirect removal instructions
What is WeatherBlink?
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Developed by Mindspark Interactive Network Inc, WeatherBlink is a potentially unwanted application claiming to provide users with the latest weather forecasts. Although this may seem a legitimate and useful browser plug-in, be aware that this toolbar is categorized as a browser hijacker or virus. These associations are made due to a deceptive software marketing method called 'bundling' employed by WeatherBlink to install on Internet browsers without users' consent. Bundling allows developers to distribute their applications together with other programs, and therefore, most users inadvertently install WeatherBlink while downloading free software from freeware download websites.
Most popular freeware download websites such as download.com, softonic.com, and soft32.com employ small download programs (called 'installers', 'download managers', 'download clients', etc.) as free services and traffic monetization tools, since they offer installation of advertised (according to the developers, '100% legitimate and virus-free') browser extensions together with the chosen free software. Thus, reckless download and installation of freeware often leads to various adware or malware infections. After successful infiltration on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox, WeatherBlink modifies the browser new page URL, homepage, and default search engine settings by assigning them to ask.com. You are strongly advised against the use of ask.com as your default search engine, since the results generated are likely to cause further computer infections.
There are many rogue applications similar to WeatherBlink. SnapMyScreen, ReferenceBoss, and Your Template Finder are just some examples among many others. None of these applications (including WeatherBlink) provide any real value for the user - their purpose is to generate revenue by enforcing unwanted browser redirects and displaying intrusive online ads. To avoid installation of WeatherBlink, or other similar browser hijacking software, pay close attention during download of free software and click 'Decline' if installation of any additional programs is offered. Furthermore, if you are installing downloaded software, select the 'Advanced' or 'Custom' installation options, rather than 'Quick' or 'Typical' - this will reveal any hidden applications listed for installation together with the chosen software. If you have installed WeatherBlink, and you are redirected to ask.com without your consent, read the following removal guide and uninstall this adware from your Internet browsers.
Deceptive pop-up advertisement promoting installation of WeatherBlink toolbar:
Deceptive installer used in WeatherBlink toolbar distribution:
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Quick menu:
- STEP 1. Uninstall WeatherBlink application using Control Panel.
- STEP 2. Remove WeatherBlink redirect from Internet Explorer.
- STEP 3. Remove WeatherBlink browser hijacker from Google Chrome.
- STEP 4. Remove WeatherBlink homepage and default search engine from Mozilla Firefox.
- STEP 5. Remove WeatherBlink redirect from Safari.
- STEP 6. Remove rogue plug-ins from Microsoft Edge.
WeatherBlink browser hijacker removal:
Windows 7 users:
Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program.
Windows XP users:
Click Start, choose Settings and click Control Panel. Locate and click Add or Remove Programs.
Windows 10 and Windows 8 users:
Right-click in the lower left corner of the screen, in the Quick Access Menu select Control Panel. In the opened window choose Programs and Features.
Mac OSX users:
Click Finder, in the opened screen select Applications. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash.
In the uninstall programs window: look for 'WeatherBlink Internet Explorer Toolbar', select this entry and click 'Uninstall' or 'Remove'.
After uninstalling the potentially unwanted programs (which cause browser redirects to the search.tb.ask.com website), scan your computer for any remaining unwanted components. To scan your computer, use recommended malware removal software.
Free scanner checks if your computer is infected. To remove malware, you have to purchase the full version of Combo Cleaner.
WeatherBlink browser hijacker removal from Internet browsers:
Video showing how to remove browser redirects (Windows OS):
Video showing how to remove WeatherBlink browser hijacker using Combo Cleaner (Mac OS):
Remove malicious add-ons from Internet Explorer:
Click the 'gear' icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select 'Manage Add-ons'. Look for 'WeatherBlink', and 'Toolbar BHO', select these entries and click 'Remove'.
Change your homepage:
Click the 'gear' icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select 'Internet Options', in the opened window, remove hxxp://home.tb.ask.com and enter your preferred domain, which will open each time you launch Internet Explorer. You can also enter about: blank to open a blank page when you start Internet Explorer.
Change your default search engine:
Click the 'gear' icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select 'Manage Add-ons'. In the opened window, select 'Search Providers', set 'Google', 'Bing', or any other preferred search engine as your default and then remove 'Ask Web Search'.
Optional method:
If you continue to have problems with removal of the weatherblink browser hijacker, reset your Internet Explorer settings to default.
Windows XP users: Click Start, click Run, in the opened window type inetcpl.cpl In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.
Windows Vista and Windows 7 users: Click the Windows logo, in the start search box type inetcpl.cpl and click enter. In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.
Windows 8 users: Open Internet Explorer and click the gear icon. Select Internet Options.
In the opened window, select the Advanced tab.
Click the Reset button.
Confirm that you wish to reset Internet Explorer settings to default by clicking the Reset button.
Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:
Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select 'Tools' and click 'Extensions'. Locate 'WeatherBlink', select this entry and click the trash can icon.
Change your homepage:
Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select 'Settings'. In the 'On startup' section, click 'set pages', hover your mouse over hxxp://home.tb.ask.com and click the x symbol. Now, you can add your preferred website as your homepage.
Change your default search engine:
To change your default search engine in Google Chrome: Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select 'Settings', in the 'Search' section, click 'Manage Search Engines...', remove 'ask.com' and add or select your preferred domain.
Optional method:
If you continue to have problems with removal of the weatherblink browser hijacker, reset your Google Chrome browser settings. Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click the Advanced… link.
After scrolling to the bottom of the screen, click the Reset (Restore settings to their original defaults) button.
In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.
Remove malicious plugins from Mozilla Firefox:
Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), select 'Add- ons'. Click 'Extensions' and remove 'WeatherBlink' (and other recently-installed browser plug-ins).
Change your homepage:
To reset your homepage, click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), then select 'Options', in the opened window, remove hxxp://home.tb.ask.com and enter your preferred domain, which will open each time you start Mozilla Firefox.
Change your default search engine:
In the URL address bar, type about:config and press Enter.
Click 'I'll be careful, I promise!'.
In the search filter at the top, type: 'ask.com'
Right-click on the found preferences and select 'Reset' to restore default values.
Click 'I'll be careful, I promise!'.
In the search filter at the top, type: 'ask.com'
Right-click on the found preferences and select 'Reset' to restore default values.
Optional method:
Computer users who have problems with weatherblink browser hijacker removal can reset their Mozilla Firefox settings.
Open Mozilla Firefox, at the top right corner of the main window, click the Firefox menu, in the opened menu, click Help.
Select Troubleshooting Information.
In the opened window, click the Refresh Firefox button.
In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Mozilla Firefox settings to default by clicking the Refresh Firefox button.
Remove malicious extensions from Safari:
Make sure your Safari browser is active and click Safari menu, then select Preferences...
In the preferences window select the Extensions tab. Look for any recently installed suspicious extensions and uninstall them.
In the preferences window select General tab and make sure that your homepage is set to a preferred URL, if its altered by a browser hijacker - change it.
In the preferences window select Search tab and make sure that your preferred Internet search engine is selected.
Optional method:
Make sure your Safari browser is active and click on Safari menu. From the drop down menu select Clear History and Website Data...
In the opened window select all history and click the Clear History button.
Remove malicious add-ons from Microsoft Edge:
Click the three horizontal dots icon (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge), select 'Extensions'. Look for any recently-installed suspicious extensions, right click your mouse on these entries and click 'Uninstall'.
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Change your homepage:
Click the three horizontal dots icon (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge), select 'Settings', in the opened tab, click the '+ Add new page' link, after entering your preferred URL, remove the link of browser hijackers by clicking the 'X' button next to the associated URL.
Change your default search engine:
Click the three horizontal dots icon (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge), select 'Settings'. Click the 'View advanced settings' button and select 'Change search engine'. In the opened tab, select your preferred Internet search engine and click 'Set as default'.
Optional method:
Click the three horizontal dots icon (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge), and select Settings.
In the opened tab, click the 'Choose what to clear' button.
Click Show more and select everything, and then click the 'Clear' button.
- If this did not help, follow these alternative instructions explaining how to reset the Microsoft Edge browser.
Summary:
A browser hijacker is a type of adware infection that modifies Internet browser settings by assigning the homepage and default Internet search engine settings to some other (unwanted) website URL. Commonly, this type of adware infiltrates operating systems through free software downloads. If your download is managed by a download client, ensure that you decline offers to install advertised toolbars or applications that seek to change your homepage and default Internet search engine settings.
Removal assistance:
If you are experiencing problems while trying to remove weatherblink browser hijacker from your Internet browsers, please ask for assistance in our malware support forum.
If you are experiencing problems while trying to remove weatherblink browser hijacker from your Internet browsers, please ask for assistance in our malware support forum.
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Safari is the default browser in macOS and has been ever since Apple first built its own web browser. Before that, for a while, it was Internet Explorer — but the less said about that the better, and before that it was Netscape Navigator. Remember that?
Safari is a perfectly good web browser and offers most of the features of its competitor web browsers, including autofill for forms and credit card details, secure password storage, and the ability to request that websites do not track you. Given Apple’s recent focus on privacy, it’s not unlikely that Safari will soon be the best option all round for Mac users who want to surf the net securely and without handing over personal data.
However, there are perfectly good reasons why you might want to use a different browser. Performance is one of them. While Safari is pretty speedy, for some users in some circumstances it’s slower than Chrome or Firefox. Or it might be that there are extensions you need that are only available in Chrome, or perhaps a website you use regularly doesn’t work properly in Safari.
What is a default web browser?
Before we get to how to change your default web browser, it’s worth considering what a default web browser is and does. Put simply, it’s the web browser that opens a link when you click on it in an email or other document. If you use Spotlight and click on a result from the web, it will open in your default browser. In fact any task that opens a URL will be performed in that web browser. It doesn’t mean, of course, that you can’t use other browsers to surf the net.
So, if you just need to access specific sites in Chrome or Firefox, you don’t need to change your default browser. Even if Safari is you default browser, you can open any link in another browser, by holding down the Control key when you click on it and selecting Copy Link, then paste it in the address bar of any browser you like.
How to set the default browser in macOS El Capitan or later, and OS X Yosemite
Apple changed the way you set the default browser in OS X Yosemite and it has remained the same since then. Previously, as you’ll see below, you had to open Safari to, say, make Google Chrome the default browser. As Apple realized, eventually, that’s plain daft. Here’s how to do it now.
- Click on the Apple menu and select System Preferences.
- Choose the General tab.
- Just over half way down, there’s a menu next to “Default web browser.” Click on it and choose the browser you want to set as the default.
How to change the default web browser in OS X Mavericks or earlier
- Launch Safari.
- Click on the Safari menu and choose Preferences.
- Click on the General tab.
- Choose the web browser you want to use as the default by clicking on the menu next to Default web browser.
- Close Preferences.
- Quit Safari.
Other methods for changing your default web browser
Every browser wants to be the default — it’s the most obvious way to increase user numbers. And so whenever you open a browser that’s not the default, you’ll see a pop up window asking if you want to set it as your browser of choice. If you choose so, it will change the System Preferences setting and position itself as the default.
If you refuse and later decide you want to make it the default after all, that’s easy too. Here’s how you do it in some of the more popular browsers for macOS.
Chrome
- To make Chrome the default browser, first of all launch it.
- Click on the Chrome menu and select Preferences.
- In the web page that opens, scroll down until you see Default Browser.
- Click Make Default.
Firefox
- Launch Firefox.
- In the Firefox menu, click Preferences.
- Make sure General is selected in the left hand sidebar (it should be blue).
- At the top of the page, you should see “General” and underneath it, a message saying that Firefox isn’t currently your default browser. To the right of that, click Make Defaul.
Opera
- Launch Opera.
- Click on the Opera menu and select Preferences.
- In the web page that opens, make sure Basic is selected on the left hand side.
- Click on Make Opera my default browser.
Vivaldi
- Launch Vivaldi.
- Click the Vivaldi menu and choose Preferences.
- Make sure Startup is selected in the left hand sidebar.
- Click on Set as Default.
3 tips to make your browser fast
Whichever web browser you use, there are some tips you should remember in order to keep it running optimally.
1. Always use the most up-to-date version.
Safari updates with macOS system updates, so make sure you install system updates when they become available. Most browsers automatically update themselves when you close and reopen them. But if you keep them open permanently, they won’t update. So the easiest way to keep them updated is to quit them every now and again.
2. Don’t keep lots of tabs open at once.
Open tabs, even those that are hidden, consume RAM, processor cycles, and energy. The more you have open, the slower your Mac will become. So close tabs you no longer need.
3. Keep your Mac clean of junk
Unnecessary files, including cache, cookies, language files and old updates can slow down your whole system, as they take more and more space. The simplest way to get rid of them is to use a dedicated app like CleanMyMac X. To quickly delete useless files on your Mac, follow the steps:
- Download CleanMyMac X and launch it.
- Click Smart Scan.
- Click Run.
As you can see, setting your default web browser in macOS is very easy — choosing which browser to use maybe less so. Whichever browser you choose, you should maintain it to keep it running optimally, CleanMyMac X can help do that easily.