Weather bug button appeared on IE6 toolbar

by dratner Sep 24, 2006 9:01AM PDT

I have just noticed a semi-transparent button that has appeared on my standard toolbar. I never installed the software, When I depress it, it says it cannot locate weather.exe. How do I get it off the toolbar?
Thanks.

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Removing Weatherbug...

by John.Wilkinson Sep 24, 2006 9:43AM PDT

Weatherbug is a desktop weather reporting program that comes bundled with some programs and is advertising-based. Usually you can remove it simply by going Start->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs and uninstalling it. If that does not work then you can click here and scroll down for instructions on manually removing Weatherbug.

Hope this helps,
John

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And by [all] means remove it.

by caktus Sep 25, 2006 9:26AM PDT

It can bog down your surfing tremendousely. Which ever program installed it may nolonger work. But compared to the trouble Weather Bug can cause, it's no great loss.

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Weatherbug

by dratner Sep 25, 2006 9:56PM PDT

I was able to hide it from the toolbar. I bet it piggybacked on AIM, which I uninstalled.

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Reply to: Weatherbug

by caktus Sep 26, 2006 12:35PM PDT

Some times I think AOL just does what ever it wants. And I don't think they do [anything] that doesn't mean revenue for them in [some] way.

If I recall correcly I had to do almost every thing in the link John provided in order to completely get rid of it.

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Weatherbug is a bug!

by robnan Sep 28, 2006 9:12PM PDT

Daft name really, WeatherBUG is precisely that - a Bug. It is bundled with Maxthon (MYIE2) and apparently removing it is really hard.

Try Spybot Search and Destroy or Lavasoft AdAware

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