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Minibug / Weatherbug
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Overview:
Minibug / Weatherbug isn't a major concern but it does has some potential privacy related things that you should be aware of. They do collect personally identifiable information. You will want to read over the EULA. A form of adware called My Search will also be installed on your system. You do get something decent out of this deal since you get reliable weather updates. If it weren't for the privacy issues and adware this would really be a nice program.

The built in uninstaller seems to remove things properly.

End Processes (may or may not exist):
minibug.exe

Unregister DLLs:
Tip:
this is only a list of known files/locations. You will want to do a search by the name of the file to see if they're on your system.
A while back I wrote a guide to Register/remove DLL or AX files which you will need if you don't know how to unregister these files.

Each file is in several locations so you'll need to search for them and unregister + delete them in every location you find.

minibugtransporter.dll

Clean your Registry:

You should be back to normal IF this was your only problem. I suggest you post in our HJT forum since its not likely that this is your only bug. Read this first


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