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I have done more research on WeatherBug and here is my report: In my article Spyware, Adware, Scumware, Sneakware I incorrectly stated that Gator comes attached with the WeatherBug utility. Oh yeah, and here is the retraction WeatherBug people asked f'r: I decided to take a second careful look at WeatherBug and write up a follow up on what I find. They didn't even remember when it was installed or how. I also began seeing WeatherBug installed on many of my clients PCs and most of them didn't even know what it was or how it was used. It also drew the attention of the WeatherBug people who sent me an unpolite email, demanding I fix my article and issue a prominent retraction and how soon can i do that because they claimed I had called WeatherBug a spyware when I had never done such a thing. Many people emailed me thanking me for writing about those nasty modern dangers and asking me for a posibility of a reprint or if they can include it in their own magazines. A copy of it also appeared in a recent issue of 2600 Hacker's Quarterly magazine and it was a great success. Some people didn't even know what that little icon on their SystemTray was, nor they have ever used it.Д«egan when I wrote an article on various spywares and posted it on searchlores. Talking to many people who have been infected with WeatherBug and asked me what it was and asked me to remove it from their systems it would appear to me a vast majority of WeatherBut users never asked for WeatherBug to be installed, or their WeatherBug installation came via other route, possibly a P2P app. You can certanly download it off their web site but that is not the only way.

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WeatherBug finds its way on people's PC from variety of ways. I have provided a detailed proof of that below.

This made me laugh because they totally screwed on this one since upon running SpyBot officially declairs them to be a a problem, calls them adware and possible spyware, points out possible problems with their (Weatherbug's) privacy policy and asks the user of it wants Weatherbug removed.

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They even include links to the most popular anti spyware apps such as SpyBot and AdAware and invite you to download them and install them and to check your system.

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They say that their software does not monitor, collect data or 'spy' on its user base. According to their website, Weatherbug is not spyware. It is a slick program that is working extermly hard to appears very useful to the average computer user. WeatherBug may bill itself as a totally free application, but it supports itself via those display ads and via aligning itself with TV stations (in this case CBS) and other various sponsors that you can see on their interface. You cannot see it from this screen capture (because I have turned off all images in IE and WeatherBug utilized IE's GUI engine) but WeatherBug runs ads in the banner bottom and it periodically sends pop up ads to your desktop. If you click the icon you can also get several day forecast, storm alerts, alerts, maps, radar, plus much more: WeatherBug will give you details about your current weather conditions including temperchure, pressure, and many other, all compiled from your local weather report from your local TV station. WeatherBug is a software program by AWS WeatherNet that provides free weather updates (for American cities) from a small icon in the systray. See also below: A reply by Shinohara (January 2005) See also below: An answer by WeatherBug (January 2005) WeatherBug: Investigating spyware ~ WeatherBug ~