Thursday, September 26, 2013

Delete Sweetpacks.search.com Virus



Is Sweetpacks.search.com a virus?

Sweetpacks.search.com is a really nasty browser hijacker virus, which can install onto your system in secret without asking your approval. In most cases, this virus always comes with many other malicious infections like Trojan horses, malware, and rogue programs. After this virus is inside the system, it can install automatically without any manual operation. When this installation is finished, Sweetpacks.search.com will get itself spread very quickly and drop many malicious files. As a result, the system resources will be consumed vastly, and the machine will run extremely slow. And the Internet speed will be slowed down as well, so when you open a website, you will see it just ends up with a blank page. Moreover, Sweetpacks.search.com also has the ability to redirect you to unwanted websites when you go to search for some information on the Internet. Besides, you should not think that it only does such things. However, it will download many destructive viruses to damage the whole system later. What’s more, it will collect your browsing details for malicious activities without your notice. So, when infected by Sweetpacks.search.com, you’d better remove it as soon as possible.






How to Remove Sweetpacks.search.com virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Sweetpacks.search.com Hijacker virus, you can go through the listed removal steps CAREFULLY.

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Sweetpacks.search.com Hijacker redirect problem

2. After that, for IE users, you need to go to "Manage Add-ons" to uninstall bad add-ons if there is any.

For Chrome users, you need to open "Settings" and delete Sweetpacks.search.com Hijacker from your start page and search engine

For Firefox users, you can go to "Add-ons" and remove its malicious toolbars and revert your default start page and new tab page.


3. There are many things to do if you want to manually get rid of Sweetpacks.search.com Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\[random]
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings\{.exe}


4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.

%AllUsersProfile%\Programs\{random}\
%Documents and Settings%\Application Data\[random].dll

Be known that Sweetpacks.search.com Hijacker is very cunning and can change its file locations anytime. So please CAREFULLY edit your registry and delete its files.


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