I wrote to SweetIM, telling them that they ought to be ashamed of SweetIM did not appear in my program list. When I clicked on Start and then All Programs, SweetIM in my program files, but when I clicked on SweetIM’s uninstallįile, nothing happened. Luckily, Spybot informed me that SweetIM is a bad program. Were convinced that they were all my homepage. To my homepage, seven new tabs tried to open all at once, pages that I did this successfully in Firefox (but to no avail it didn’t seem to help) I couldn’t find SweetIM as an add-on in IE.Īnd when I clicked on the little “house” icon which normally takes me I went to both browsers in order to disable SweetIM as an add-on. Matter how many times I did this, SweetIM always hijacked the homepage. I went to both browsers and changed my homepage back to google, but no I went to Add or Remove Programs through my Control panel, but I couldn’t find SweetIM, under any name. SweetIM became my preferred homepage whether I used Firefox or Internet Explorer. I have Windows XP Firefox 15.0.1 Internet Explorer 8. I deleted the icons, yet SweetIM “had its way” with my Took forever in fact, I had to manually shut the computer down, butīefore I did, I saw three new icon shortcuts on my desktop SweetIM and I didn’t choose any of theseĪdd-ons, and unclicked all three boxes. Upon installing it, I was given the opportunity to install threeĪdditional items that included SweetIM. Last night, I downloaded a program from : Free RAR Extract Frog. While this is certainly morally suspect and unwelcome in FOSS, furthermore I believe Sourceforge may have a policy against this, in which case we should report it: As I said in the other thread: by letting this spyware install, they have lost the trust of their users, damaged the reputation of Sourceforge, and, finally, completely stopped me from using the software and certainly ever donating. It’s really sad that the developers are this desperate. If you find anything else, please feel free to post it here. It does not have a “remove” button within, but can be removed in Windows’ Add/Remove program dialog.
However, this infection happened last night, and despite multiple hours trying to clean it, I’m still finding bits and pieces of this software: for example, check all your browser homepages, browser extension settings (FF in about:config), including even the “address bar search” mechanism (in about:config, search for “keyword.url” and reset that key).Īlso double check for a “Web Assistant 2.0” in your add-ons. I was able to remove most of “Incredibar” using Spybot Search & Destroy. You are not the first to complain about these underhanded tactics.
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