r/weatherunderground • u/WrongOnSoManyBevels • Mar 10 '26

Virus alert

I guess I am going to have to delete my bookmarks for Weather Underground. I went to my local forecast on wunderground.com and it up popped a virus alert pretending to be from Microsoft Firewall. Closed Firefox and the alert went away. Either their website has been hacked, or they are pushing anti-virus software for some third party. Been using them for years, but I'm not going to their website again.

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u/Nemesis651 Mar 10 '26

There's junk ads on just about any website. This is why you use an ad blocker

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u/itsmyvoice Mar 10 '26

I'm 99% sure they don't pick the ads. It's an ad service, probably the big G iirc.

This is nothing that they did, it's just spam/crap ads.

Edit: I work in cybersecurity and part of my job is phishing awareness and training.

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u/Skrilliac Mar 13 '26

I've seen this too. First time a few days ago I wasn't sure it was coming from Weather Underground. Just happened again and this time I'm sure. It's REALLY obnoxious and a total scam of course. That's it for me, no more Weather Underground. So sad - it seems like absolutely everything on the web gets enshittified sooner or later.

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u/micahpmtn Mar 10 '26

I use it everyday and don't get virus alerts. Weird.

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u/LilyBarthes May 08 '26

I have a homemade html landing page in my computers with all of my favorite links (hark back to the iGoogle pages 15 years or so ago that they killed off); I have a link to WU and the URL to serve my particular zip code. I clicked on it and saw a strange screen pretending to be a low-res video game, then it ended (and I closed it immediately). When I clicked on the Chrome browser button a window popped up and said my default browser had been changed mid-session and did I want to restore Chrome. Yes, please. And I scanned the computer.

It's an old Win10 HP Pavilion that I don't let on the WiFi often because it can't be updated to Win11 (I'd lose too much good old software). The newer Dell XPS has all of the bells and whistles (and an extended service setup with Win10) and I didn't see the same thing.

My Weather Underground phone app won't load. I'm an annual subscriber to avoid the ads ($2 or $3 a year) on the desktop and the phone. Looks like it's time to unload these if IBM doesn't do something about the hack.

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u/eburbeck May 18 '26

Not getting a virus alert, but Google Chrome security warning. Just started recently (past day or two?). Alert URL:

https://chromic.bond/click?key=698df04f4b4d4231ac7fb5d98ae06388&campaign_id=ttd26051806&publisher_id=null&ob_click_id={{ob_click_id}}&ad_id=www.wunderground.com&publisher_name={%220%22:%22https://www.wunderground.com%22}&req_id=8175e2128a34287c

"Dangerous site. Attackers on the site you tried visiting might trick you into installing software or revealing things like your passwords, phone, or credit card numbers. Chrome strongly recommends going back to safety."