Information AboutWeatherbug |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT WEATHERBUG | |
| adware | |
| mesoscale meteorology | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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POPULARITY WeatherBug claims to be the most popular source for online weather information on the Internet, with an average of 21 million unique monthly users (comscore Media Matrix, March 2005). SPYWARE, ADWARE, AND OTHER CONCERNS One detector, CtrSpy, lists WeatherBug as "low risk adware", WeatherBug has also drawn concern from IT support technicians that it and software included with it attempts to resist uninstallation. In response to spyware concerns, the company [http://www.weatherbug.com/aws/support/faq_spyware.htm published a page in an attempt to address the issue. COVERAGE WeatherBug claims that unlike other weather programs, they have 8000 exclusive stations (which includes the 1000 U.S. government stations available through most other Ad-supported weather products). Further, they claim their stations update weather information live, whereas government stations update once an hour and are mostly at airports, while WeatherBug's stations are in neighborhoods, mostly at schools. The free program is only for U.S. cities, while other versions of the software offer international locations. EXTERNAL LINKS |