Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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I made the mistake of downloading and installing some smileys on the recommendation of a friend. They came from SweetIM. I have read several how-to's after searching but none have worked. I did the Control Panel/ADD-REMOVE-Programs thing and it disappeared from the list; however, the crazy little monkey is still grinning at me. I think it hijacked the Google search feature, but I'm not sure of this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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Does it show up in the Addons Manager? Tools -> Addons -> Extensions.
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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Yes, it did; but I had looked there before and not found it. I uninstalled it and restarted Fx and it seems to be gone.

Thanks a bunch. Sometimes it's danged near impossible to see the obvious.
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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Odd that it was not there, then it was. At any rate, I'm glad you were able to finally kill it off!

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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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This thing is pretty persistent. Even after removing the program and the add-on extension, the monkey still grinned at me from the icon on the left side of my search bar entry point. I finally stumbled onto (I cant' remember how I got there and can't seem to find my way back to it) a way to manage my search engines. I found that the sweetIm engine was still hanging around there; so I deleted it. No more grinning monkey.

So . . . to recap: How to Remove SweetIM
1) Use Add/Remove Programs from Control Panel in Windows to remove the program and related elements
2) In Firefox (and there is probably some equivalent unknown to me in IE) go to Tools/Add-Ons/Extensions
and uninstall the SweetIM extension
3) Go to your search engines and find Manage Search Engines then delete the SweetIm search
engine from the list.
4) In Firefox go to Tools/Options and look at the Main tab. Be sure that your home page URL has not been hijacked.

(Posted in case anyone else has the problem and finds this thread using the Search feature.)
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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I suggest you also check out http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diag ... or_malware

There might be some submerged crud left.
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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I can tell you that I have been hunting the same download for a year! I have removed,deleted,screamed and pounded and just 2 days ago I found it lurking in 'applications',long after I was SURE it was history! It is pernicious! I have been assured that it's Not a virus. You could have fooled me!
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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yeah, malware-city on that one.
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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Yeah! Definitely mal.

So where do you get smilies?
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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Nah, how could it be, TRUSTe rate SweetIM a "trusted download".......along with Conduit Toolbars......... :-&

http://www.truste.com/privacy_seals_and ... elist.html
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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Hey, signed up to this just to tell you how to get rid of Sweet-worse-than-aids-Im.

its really persistent and youll notice when youve uninstalled it usually the search bar is still there.

so try this:

uninstall all SweetIm stuff in Programs and Features (win 7)

in your browser, delete all SweetIm stuff from your add ons and extensions

then go into my computer

type 'regedit' into the search bar, (it looks like a blue defraged cube)

go into that, and 'find' (ctrl+f)

type 'sweet' and hit enter

it will take you straight to a reg key for SweetIm, delete it

just keep repeating, keep 'finding' 'sweet' and deleting them one by one until there is non left to find

and all the SweetIm shite will be off your pc, including that stubborn search box!

this takes about... 2 minutes?

This is the first thing ive ever posted on one of these sites so if you get confused by my poor instructions just gimme a shout.

hope you find it useful :)
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Re: Anyone Know How to Remove SweetIM?

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i posted how to fully get rid of SweetIm.. but its not here.... help?
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BobbyGeordie wrote:i posted how to fully get rid of SweetIm.. but its not here.... help?

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