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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on March 16, 2006, 16:56

Title: Weather Watcher - warning
Post by: Clive on March 16, 2006, 16:56

I updated Weather Watcher yesterday aftert which I kept getting a very nasty pop-up that would not be tamed.  Ad-Aware showed it had dumped 17 pieces of spyware on me including WhenU exe which is a popup that advertises products it thinks you are looking for.  Needless to say I immediately uninstalled Weather Watcher and the popup has disappeared.
A better alternative is http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml

Title: Weather Watcher - warning
Post by: TR on March 16, 2006, 17:22

You could try This (http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/HOME/) one.

Very very acurate  8)

Title: Weather Watcher - warning
Post by: Clive on March 16, 2006, 18:37

Thanks Terry.  It shows very bad weather for my area for the next 14 days.  Do you have anything that forecasts warm and sunny for me instead?   :grin:

Title: Weather Watcher - warning
Post by: Simon on March 16, 2006, 20:16

I updated WW recently too, Clive, and I did notice there was an option to install something which was obviously adware, but it did give you a box to untick if you didn't want it, which of course, I unticked, and mine is fine.

Title: Weather Watcher - warning
Post by: Clive on March 16, 2006, 23:23

Obviously I was not properly awake when I carried out the update!

Title: Weather Watcher - warning
Post by: Simon on March 17, 2006, 00:02

It is very flashy now though, and I can't help thinking unnecessarily so.  I have an old version on file if you'd like it, Clive.  :)

Title: Weather Watcher - warning
Post by: Clive on March 17, 2006, 08:14

Thanks Simon but I'll carry on using Terry's latest offering which seems to be accurate for today at least!   :laugh: