# Weatherbug at work? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 5, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weatherbug-at-work/297776 "2005-04-05T02:51:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weatherbug-at-work/297776/1 "2005-04-05T02:51:11Z")
Does anyone here use Weatherbug at work? If so, are you allowed to use it? If not, how come your IT folks forbid it? I don’t use it, and i don’t really care for it. Whenever i see i on someone else’s system, i notice that it is constantly _wrong_! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weatherbug-at-work/297776/2 "2005-04-05T04:37:44Z")
I’ve got Weatherbug on this home computer, and it seems to be reasonably accurate. Now: I had Weatherbug on a computer at work and when the IT people found it they removed it and I got a wrist-slapping because I’d :GASP!: _Installed Unauthorized Software!_. BFD. Good thing I knew they were coming. I removed my Anna Kournikova screen saver before they got there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weatherbug-at-work/297776/3 "2005-04-05T11:25:05Z")
Speaking as one of the guys who has to clean this shit up, let me tell you that rules forbidding the installation of “unauthorized software” aren’t to annoy you. Too many users can’t be trusted to know what they’re doing so they download every smiley-central, comet cursor, bargain buddy, free dancing cow screensaver they can find each installing it self with several more programs the user doesn’t even know. Best policy is to just deny all http downloads via the Firewall. It’s not foolproof but it helps. BTW, [Weather bug](http://www.pchell.com/support/weatherbug.shtml) installs other software without your permission, gums up your system resources and sucks up bandwidth as it calls home on a regular basis and displays pop up ads on your desktop. ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weatherbug-at-work/297776/4 "2005-04-05T11:27:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Too many users can’t be trusted to know what they’re doing so they download every smiley-central, comet cursor, bargain buddy, free dancing cow screensaver they can find each installing it self with several more programs the user doesn’t even know. _Forgot to add to that:_ …then they drag me away form important problems and complain their system is slow, crashes or takes forever to boot up. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weatherbug-at-work/297776/5 "2005-04-05T12:26:33Z")
Weatherbug interfered with email in our case. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weatherbug-at-work/297776/6 "2005-04-05T12:51:05Z")
I don’t understand why anyone would want to use Weatherbug. Just download Firefox and get the ForecastFox extension. ---
**Author:** ![a\_pirahna\_brother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@a\_pirahna\_brother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_pirahna_brother)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weatherbug-at-work/297776/7 "2005-04-05T13:43:45Z")
I’ll second what **RumMonkey** said and add that in my IT experience, people that have Weatherbug on their PC spend every \*5 damn minutes \* checking the weather instead of actually working. D. Pirahna