Threat Database Browser Hijackers Search.searchwfaa.com

Search.searchwfaa.com

By GoldSparrow in Browser Hijackers

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 47
First Seen: December 16, 2016
Last Seen: January 4, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Search.searchwfaa.com portal is associated with the Weather Forecast Alerts extension by Eightpoint Technologies Ltd., and the program may be installed with software packages published by Polarity Technologies Ltd. Computer users may encounter the extension under the name Weather Forecast Alerts New Tab. The program at hand is designed to serve as an addition to Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. As the name suggests, the Weather Forecast Alerts extension is supposed to provide extra information in your browser that includes weather forecast, humidity level, atmospheric pressure, and wind direction and speed. Web surfers can add the Weather Forecast Alerts extension to their Internet client by navigating to Weatherforecastalerts.com and use software packages by Polarity Technologies Ltd. PC users are not required to pay for installing and using the Weather Forecast Alerts, but they are welcomed to approve a new configuration for their browsers.

Weather Forecast Alerts depends on Search.searchwfaa.com and users are urged to set Search.searchwfaa.com as their homepage, new tab page design and default search provider. The configuration is ported to all browsers supported by Weather Forecast Alerts at the time of the installation. Search.searchwfaa.com does not provide standalone services and acts as a redirect-gateway to free weather forecast reports and related data on wunderground.com, mapmart.com and weather.com. These pages can be bookmarked and accessed for free without the need to install the Weather Forecast Alerts extension. Additionally, Search.searchwfaa.com is powered by a custom Yahoo engine that is tailored to provide advertisements and recommendations from Eightpoint Technologies Ltd. and Polarity Technologies Ltd. only. Web surfers that are interested in using Weather Forecast Alerts will be unable to set a custom new tab page layout and may have trouble restoring their homepage. Unlike other extensions, Weather Forecast Alerts does not appear to add an icon to the main browser toolbar and lacks easy access. Companies like Eightpoint Technologies Ltd. and Polarity Technologies Ltd. make money from Internet traffic on their custom redirect-gateways, which are supposed to improve your online experience but lack options regarding customization.

The Weather Forecast Alerts extension may provide users with quick links to resources on wunderground.com, mapmart.com, and weather.com, which you may find useful to a degree. You should note that Search.searchwfaa.com does not allow users to make customizations on how the site works for them and Weather Forecast Alerts may not be easy to manage. If you are not satisfied with Weather Forecast Alerts by Eightpoint Technologies Ltd., it can be removed from the native extension manager in your browser. As mentioned before, Polarity Technologies Ltd. makes money from Internet traffic on Search.searchwfaa.com, and there may be more than a few tracking cookies on your PC that may not be removed with the Weather Forecast Alerts extension. You might want help from a credible anti-spyware that can purge residual files from the removal of Weather Forecast Alerts.

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Search.searchwfaa.com may call the following URLs:

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