Hijackers' viral applications have recently become something very active. One of these threats is the Sweet Page utility. How to remove this virus from Chrome or any other browser installed on the system, read on. You can offer at least two simple ways, which will be discussed.
What is the Sweet Page program?
As already clear, this applet belongs to the category of browser hijackers. This virus cannot be called particularly dangerous, since its main effect on the system as a whole and web browsers in particular comes down to the fact that it changes the start page to sweet-page.com (how to delete this page will be said separately), sometimes it replaces default search engines are built into browsers as add-ons, redirect the user to advertising sites and slow down the Internet.
In this case, we will talk about how to remove the Sweet Page from Chrome, although the proposed solutions are equally well suited for all known browsers. If there are several of them in the system, the actions described below will need to be performed for each of them. For Internet Explorer or Edge, you must perform these procedures accurately, even if there are no other browsers, since they are preinstalled programs of Windows-systems, although they may not be used for Internet surfing by default.
How to remove Sweet Page from computer?
The methodology for removing this virus is largely reminiscent of the basic methods of neutralizing all threats of this group. And before starting to consider how to remove the Sweet Page from Chrome, you need to get rid of the main applet in the form of an installed application (just removing the virus from the browser will not give any effect, and the application will reactivate over time).
To do this, you need to use the programs and components section, which is located in the “Control Panel”, sort the list of applications by installation date, find the desired utility, and follow the standard uninstall procedure. Along the way, look at the unknown programs installed on the same date. Perhaps the virus has already managed to harm, and other unwanted applets have entered the system. Uninstall everything that you definitely did not install, or those programs that cause suspicion.
Then, as usual, you should search for all the remains in the registry and on the hard drive, searching for the name of the virus.
How to remove Sweet Page from Chrome or any other browser?
Now you can proceed to the actions in the browser. How to remove Sweet Page from Chrome? Elementary! First you need to check the properties of the browser shortcut using the right-click menu for this.
In the line indicating the type of object, after the name of the executable file of the browser Chrome.exe, nothing should be more. If there is an extraneous postscript like the start page of sweetpage.com or something else, delete it and save the changes.
Next, go to the browser settings and delete the corresponding add-in (if necessary, then other unknown add-ons), then change the start page (for example, to blank), set the desired search system by default, save the changes and restart the system.
You can do even easier by choosing not to manually change the browser settings, but to reset the settings to the so-called factory state. In principle, the effect is the same (but the label still has to be verified without fail).
Automated Uninstallers
In order not to deal with the manual removal of this advertising applet, you can use special utilities designed exclusively for uninstalling applications of any type, up to the components of the operating system. To perform actions in automatic mode with the search for all residues in the form of files, directories or registry keys, the iObit Uninstaller program is perfect.
The procedure in the running application is as follows:
- sort by installation date;
- remove Sweet Page and all other unknown or suspicious applications installed on the selected date;
- run a powerful scan;
- highlight all the results found;
- delete the remains using the activation of the file destruction item;
- reboot the system.
Instead of a total
On this, in fact, you can put an end to. The above actions remove this threat without any problems. Of course, one could advise using a utility like AdwCleaner or something similar, but you can’t really rely on them, since they can’t always find threats of this type, although this is precisely their purpose.
Finally, never, under any circumstances, use software products like SpyHunter. After installing them, getting rid of such applications will be much more difficult than the viruses themselves, especially since they may find threats, but they won’t be able to neutralize them without purchasing a license or buying the full version of the program, but simply don’t want to (moreover, they will constantly issue persistent offers of registration and purchase of official software).