SweetPCFix Hijacker - How to remove

SweetPCFix Hijacker

SweetPCFix is a registry maintenance tool developed by SweetIM Technologies Ltd. It promises to maximize your computer‘s system proficiency. SweetPCFix includes a service of scanning registry and cleaning invalid registry errors. It also defragments PC registry. Although the product is charged for, there is a free trial version of it available. Usually those having problems with SweetPCFix have the latter version.

This tool is distributed using bundling method mostly and might come with other SweetIM Technologies Ltd products, such as SweetIM, Video Converter, or GamePacks. Once a computer user installs free software of her choice and selects an automatic installation option, she ends up having additional applications. Suddenly Home page, default search engine and New Tab page is changed to some other, for example home.sweetim.com or search.sweetpacks.com. Another annoying change is constant pop-up advertisements. If you have a free version of SweetPCFix installed, you will be reminded of purchasing its full version on regular basis.

We recommend removing SweetPCFix and any other Sweetpacks products from your computer as soon as these are noticed, especially if they were installed without your clear consent. Please note, having these browser hijackers is not only annoying but also increase a possibility of being attacked by viruses. Even though SweetPCFix is not a malware itself, the advertisements displayed might be malicious and contain viruses or lead to infected websites. Subsequently your computer might get damaged.

Most likely you will not find SweetPCFix in Control Panel Add and Remove Programs list. If you see anything related to Sweetpacks, remove from there. It might be that when trying to uninstall the software you will be asked to update it instead of actually removing. Do not update anything. The safest way to remove SweetPCFix trial version and anything that came with it is by using antimalware program, for example Spyhunter. It will detect all of unwanted applications and get rid of them automatically.

SweetPCFix removal instructions:

  1. Download and scan your computer with Spyhunter. SweetPCFix and any other Sweetpacks toolbars should be removed automatically.
  2. Check the following settings:
    • For Internet Explorer: Go to “Tools” (or gear icon in Internet Explorer 9), -> “Manage Add-ons”. Search for SweetPCFix, SweetIM or Sweetpacks related entries. If you find any, disable them.
    • For Google Chrome: Click on the wrench or bars icon on the top right of the screen; go to “Tools”-> “Extensions”. If you see any extensions related to SweetPCFix, SweetIM or Sweetpacks, click on a trash can icon next to them.
    • For Mozilla Firefox: Go to “Tools” -> “Add-ons” ->; “Extensions”. If you see any extensions related to SweetPCFix, SweetIM or Sweetpacks, disable them.
  3. Scan your computer with antivirus program one more time to make sure that no threats are left.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Download Spyhunter for Malware detection
(Win)

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Download Combo Cleaner for Malware detection
(Mac)

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Manual removal

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