My Weather Radar

The My Weather Radar software may be presented to Web surfers as a browser extension called My Weather Radar New Tab on the Chrome Web Store. The My Weather Radar software product is offered for free by Polarity Technologies Ltd. The company's name is mentioned in quite a few of our articles on riskware. Polarity Technologies Ltd. is well-known for publishing renamed versions of earlier projects of theirs. The My Weather Radar extension is an ad-supported program that is promoted on the Chrome Web Store saying:

'Search and access popular weather quick links instantly from your new tab page!
This extension configures your New Tab page to My Weather Radar™.
View your home weather for today, news for weather, and weather alerts now, with the help of My Weather Radar™. The My Weather Radar™ extension offers convenient web search and features from the Chrome New Tab page.
Get fast, one-click access to popular online game content from your new tab page with My Weather Radar™.

The My Weather Radar™ extension offers convenient web search and quick links to popular online sites from the Chrome New Tab page.'

You might want to know that My Weather Radar is a clone of the Local Weather Radar extension and the Weatherly software from Polarity Technologies Ltd. The My Weather Radar application is configured to change your new tab and primary search provider to Search.hmyweatherradar.co. The My Weather Radar extension requires the following rights in Google Chrome:

• Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.
• Replace the page you see when opening a new tab.
• Read and change your browsing history.
• Detect your physical location.
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes.
• Change your search settings to: search.hmyweatherradar.co

Computer security analysts note that Search.hmyweatherradar.co is identical to Search.searchlwr.com and Search.myweathertab.com. Additionally, we found several other clones of My Weather Radar published via the following pages:

• 'Your Weather Info Now' by Chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/your-weather-info-now/illlhidpbijnffleplnenjdiabnkgddd and Yourweatherinfonow.com redirects users to Search.yourweatherinfonow.com
• 'Easy Weather Access' by Chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easy-weather-access/onmippjicieoicaedikpadicanccamgh and Easyweatheraccess.com redirects users to Search.easyweatheraccess.com

The My Weather Radar browser extension is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by Polarity Technologies Ltd. that records your browsing history, changes your search settings and helps marketers deploy customized commercials to your screen. Polarity shares information on your online activity with advertisers to keep its products free-to-use and continue releasing "new" products. Search.hmyweatherradar.co may offer links to Wather.com/maps/severealerts and News.mynewswire.co that you may find useful.

However, you do not need to have the My Weather Radar extension installed if you intend to access the resources on Wather.com/maps/severealerts and News.mynewswire.co — you can simply bookmark them. You should know that the My Weather Radar extension providers search results via Search.hmyweatherradar.co that redirects Web surfers to a custom Yahoo engine on:

h[tt]ps://search.yahoo[.]com/yhs/search?hspart=adk&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbyhp&p=[search term]¶m2=4b522e2f-0e30-4d0d-9cd5-8aa2674accbc¶m3=weather_~NO~¶m4=~Chrome~[search term]¶m1=17700101&type=

Removing the My Weather Radar app can be as easy as loading the Extensions Manager in Google Chrome. On the other hand, the tracking cookies and Web beacons downloaded by My Weather Radar may remain on your system. Marketers can access them and recognize your device on affiliated pages. A credible anti-spyware scanner can help you clean the residual files from removing the My Weather Radar extension safely.