What Can I Do to Get Rid of Sweetpacks - Search.sweetpacks.com Removal Guide

Do you set Sweetpacks Search (search.sweetpacks.com) as your homepage? Why it takes over your homepages? Though it is not a dangerous problem as Trojan virus does, while you have to deal with it as soon as possible.

Sweetpacks Search Description

Sweetpacks Search (search.sweetpacks.com) is a browser hijacker and redirection virus that takes over users’ homepages and redirects users’ searching results. Sometimes Sweetpacks Search will open new tabs automatically and show up the search.sweetpacks.com page. In fact, Sweetpacks changes default browser settings once installed. It takes over the homepages, redirects searching results, and alerts the DNS settings and default search engine and so on. What is more, Sweetpacks monitors users’ online activities and collects sensitive information by reviewing searching keywords, histories and cookies. In this perspective, users’ personal information may be revealed to hackers and cyber criminals for illegal purpose. Thus, users have to remove Sweetpacks as soon as possible.

Sweetpacks comes to the compromised computer together with other programs on the Internet when users down load or update softwares from the Internet. Except changing the browser settings, Sweetpacks drops malicious files and registry entries to the target computer in order to settle it down on the target computer. Users may get advertisements if infected with Sweetpacks.

Harmful Properties of Sweetpacks

1. Sweetpacks changes the default browser settings and annoys users’ online activities;
2. Sweetpacks attacks users computer without permission;
3. Sweetpacks drops malicious files and registry entries to the infected computer;
4. Sweetpacks is able to reveal the personal information to cyber criminals;
5. Sweetpacks hijacks the homepages, redirects the search results, and changes the default search engines;

What Can I Do to Get Rid of Sweetpacks - Search.sweetpacks.com Removal Guide

Approach one: manually remove Sweetpacks from the infected computer.

To manually get rid of Sweetpacks virus, it’s to end processes, unregister DLL files, search and uninstall all other files and registry entries. Follow the removal guide below to start.

1: Stop Sweetpacks running processes in Windows Task Manager first.
( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

2: Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

3: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all Sweetpacks registry entries listed here:
(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[trojan name]IEHelper.DNSGuardCurVer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[trojan name]IEHelper.DNSGuardCLSID
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[trojan name]IEHelper.DNSGuard
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[trojan name]IEHelper.DNSGuard.1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternetExplorerToolbar “[trojan name]”

4: All Sweetpacks associated files listed below need to be removed:

%AppData%[trojan name]toolbardtx.ini
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarguid.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarlog.txt
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarpreferences.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstat.log
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallIE.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallStatIE.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarversion.xml

5: Clear your internet history records, internet temp files and cookies.

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Approach two: automatically remove Sweetpacks with SpyHunter.

Step one: download SpyHunter by clicking on the icon below.

Step two: install SpyHunter on your computer step by step.

Step three: after finishing the installation of SpyHunter, scan the computer fully to delete the evil files related to Sweetpacks.

Step four: restart the computer, and then do a full scanning again to make sure all the threatening files are gone.

Attention: Maybe you would like to remove Sweetpacks manually, but if you are not expert in the operation of computer, you’d better not remove Sweetpacks manually. The reason is that manual removal is too complicated and difficult. However, any mistakes made in the process will cause further damage to the system. So we strongly recommend that you should download SpyHunter to automatically remove Sweetpacks, which is easier and more effective. Moreover, SpyHunter can take many preventive measures to safeguard your computer.

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