What is Sweet-page.com?

Sweet-page.com is a website created to look like a search engine and therefore not to raise up suspicions of users. However, Sweet-page.com is not a threat itself, it is though is considered to be a type of malware called browser hijacker. Once installed, Sweet-page.com changes the browser settings setting itself as the main page and search engine. The result shown on this page are mostly the pages of Sweet-page.com customers and are full of advertisement. More than that, annoying ads and constant redirections will appear on the pages you’ve safely visited before. In addition, sweet-page.com has some other malicious traits, like rootkit capabilities, to spy on the user’s browsing activity and collect the personal information. Learn how to remove Sweet-page from your browsers and restore search settings.

Sweet-page.com

How Sweet-page.com gets on your PC?

Sweet-page.com has a typical for browser hijacker way of distribution. More often than everything else it is installed with other freeware. The developers of Sweet-page.com use a bundling tactics to mask the hijacker installation. The tactics is aimed to the users who rush through the setup by unthinkingly clicking the Next button, therefore they do not notice additional options. The not-mentioned in Default mode software can be deselected in Custom or Advanced type of installation. You can use Norton or SpyHunter to remove Sweet-page.com from computer and protect PC from hijackers in future.

How to remove Sweet-page.com from your computer?

To uninstall Sweet-page.com remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Sweet-page.com in their database. You can try to use them for removing Sweet-page.com.

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You can try both of these products to remove Sweet-page.com

Or uninstall Sweet-page.com manually.

Step 1: Remove Sweet-page.com from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find sweet-page uninstall or sweet-page uninstaller.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find sweet-page uninstall or sweet-page uninstaller and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find sweet-page uninstall or sweet-page uninstaller, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

  1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
  2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
  3. On the right side, locate sweet-page uninstall or sweet-page uninstaller and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
  4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Sweet-page.com from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Sweet-page.com from browsers

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Sweet-page.com.
  6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
  3. Choose Sweet-page.com.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Push Alt + T.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Sweet-page.com.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:
  1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
  2. Choose Settings.
  3. Click Show advanced settings.
  4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
  5. Click Reset browser settings.
  6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:
  1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
  2. Go to Help.
  3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
  4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:
  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
  3. Click Internet options.
  4. Go to Advanced tab.
  5. Click Reset button.
  6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
  7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

Step 4: Remove following files and folders of Sweet-page.com:

Remove following registry entries:

no information

Remove following files:

%THREAT%.dll

Remove following folders

%PROGRAMFILES%\Sweet-page.com\

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