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11/23/2015

Remove home.sweetim.com Browser Hijacker in a Quicker Way


You Are not Alone with home.sweetim.com


home.sweetim.com presents itself as a supportive and legitimate search tool providing homepage and search engine. In fact, it could be an irritating browser hijacker that gains control over users’ browsers relentlessly. Just like others hijackers that takes over users’ browsers frequently such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer, home.sweetim.com can be a real disturbance.


Distributed by questionable shared software or bundled software provided by third party websites, home.sweetim.com gets into numerous PC. Attachment of junk mail, links on fishing website or corrupted porn site also serve as accomplices for its wide spread. A whole lot of users will then find it is hard to be removed from their system ever since it successfully lurks into their machines.


It Has Never Been Easy to be with home.sweetim.com


You could get pestered badly by home.sweetim.com that specializes in playing havoc and leaving a mess on infected browser.

1) It shows up frequently, overlapping default homepage and replacing search engine.
2) It opens up new tabs or new windows randomly while you are doing a search.
3) It takes a hand in web surfing and makes browsers respond sluggish.
4) It performs unauthorized modifications on settings of installed browser.
5) It harasses Internet surfers with massive pop-ups which may cause unexpected browser failure.
6) It introduces infected PC to all sorts of malicious programs like spyware, adware or Trojan.
7) It triggers system malfunctions and vulnerabilities, leaving computers running in weak security condition.

For the sake of PC, users are highly advised to take action and stop this hijacker timely.



Paths to Remove home.sweetim.com Completely



>>> Path B: Manually Remove home.sweetim.com by Yourself



Path A: Automatically and Safely Remove home.sweetim.com  (Very Popular)


How will Spyhunter be your computer Safeguard?

Be prudent while downloading software from Internet though it is skilled at fooling.
Display warnings when encountering unknown and insecure links
Won’t release your confidential information (like account username, passwords, email address) to any illicit source.
Scan your email to check if it’s safe before your opening.
Scan and keep your computer up-to-date on a regular basis
Turn on safe browsing mode and enable pop-ups blocker features of your using web browser.
Chang your log-in details in every 60 days to maintain you privacy.



2.  Click Ctrl+J together to get the all the download files if you are using Google. Search for SpyHunter-Installer.exe.  In order to install the removal tool, you need to give your permission by clicking Run.



3. Please follow the pop-up box prompts to accomplish the SpyHunter Installation.

Choose Continue to click to get the Install option


Choose "I accept the EULA and Privacy Policy" and then click INSTALL.


You need to be patient when you are arriving 'downloading file'. It will take a while.


Start New Scan and delete all the detected files.


Friendly Tip: it takes more than 30 minutes to accomplish the scanning. You can go away to have a break for yourself.


Here comes the moment. Clicking ' Fix Threats', you are on the right track to remove home.sweetim.com and other malware.


Restart computer to take effect.


Path B: Manually Remove home.sweetim.com by Yourself



Step 1. remove home.sweetim.com from browsers

    Remove home.sweetim.com from Google Chrome:

  1. Start Chrome, click chrome menu icon More Tools  Extensions.
  2. In  Extensions, find home.sweetim.com and the unwanted extensions and select chrome-trash-icon to remove them.

     3. Then select Settings. Scroll down the page and click Show advanced settings.



   4. Find the Reset browser settings section and click Reset browser settings button.

(Reminder: please backup your personal Google data like account usernames, passwords and bookmarks before you choose to reset your browser, or you may lose the data.)


    5. select Manage Search Engines.  Remove home.sweetim.com and others but the search engine you like.


(Tips: If you don't want to reset any of your browsers and do it manually by yourself, you are kindly recommended to use SpyHunter to remove home.sweetim.com automatically for you. Thus, you won't have to backup your data on the browsers.)

   Remove home.sweetim.com from Firefox


  1. Open Firefox, click on Mozilla menu (top right) → Add-ons
  2. Search for home.sweetim.com extension and the unwanted ones to enable.




 Remove home.sweetim.com from Internet Explorer
1. Open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools → Manage Add-ons → Search Providers
2. Right click home.sweetim.com click Disable suggestions close the window




Step 2. Remove home.sweetim.com& other unwanted programs from Control Panel

You are suggested to use Windows utility to remove the unwanted application home.sweetim.com. Commonly, additional PUPs will come along with it. Search for home.sweetim.com as well as other unknown programs to remove them from Control panel. The way of accessing Control Panel is different on different Windows operating systems. Follow the steps below:


 Windows 8

- right click Start ( which is on the left corner of your PC) > open Quick Access Menue
- select Control Panel > click Control Panel > click Uninstall a Program
- search for home.sweetim.com and other suspicious programs > click Remove to get rid of them

 Windows 7

- click Start > Control Panel> Program and Features
- scroll through the program list and select home.sweetim.com ( and other junkware) > click Remove

 Windows XP

- click Start > Control Panel > search for and double click Add/Remove Programs 
- scroll through the program list and highlight home.sweetim.com application and the unwanted ones > click Remove


NOTE: 

You need to search for other suspicious programs and uninstall them to avoid home.sweetim.com re-installation. If you are not so familiar with it, you can ask help from Spyhunter to fix all the issues for you, including removing home.sweetim.com and other crapware, fixing system loopholes and speeding up your PC.


Step 3. Remove home.sweetim.com registry

Press Win+R keys together > input 'regedit' > click 'OK'




Search for the registries below to remove:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe 
http://www.home.sweetim.com/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Google Chrome\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Documents and Settings\test\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://www.home.sweetim.com/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe 

One Stone, Two Birds:

Correctly finishing all the steps above can help you remove home.sweetim.com completely. If you don't have the patience and courage to remove it all by yourself, you can choose the convenient method - the professional home.sweetim.com removal tool SpyHunter to help you remove it safely and easily. In addition, you can user SpyHunter to optimize your PC after the removal.  






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