sweetpacks
Hi somehow sweetpacks decided to get on my computer I have tried removing it but am unsuccessful. I have firefox as my home page but when I type in something it goes to sweetpacks. I can't find anywhere on my computer to remove it. Please can anyone help it is so annoying. Brad
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.5.3"
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- iTunes Detector Plug-in
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- 4.1.10329.0
- DivX Plus Web Player version 2.2.0.52
- DivX VOD Helper Plug-in
- NPWLPG
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5.8.612
- The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
More Information
In order to uninstall a possibly unwanted extension, please do the following:
- From the Firefox window click the Firefox button at the top left and select Add-ons, or, if the Firefox button is not shown, click the Tools menu and click Add-ons.
- Once the Add-on Manager has opened in a new tab, click the Extensions button on the left side of the window.
- You should now see a list of your installed extensions on the right side together with buttons on the right side of each extension.
- To remove an extension from Firefox, simply click the Remove button. You should see a message that informs you about the successful removal of the add-on.
- Note that some add-ons require a Firefox restart to be removed completely. To perform a Firefox restart after the add-on removal, click the Restart now link in the message.
You can find further information about uninstalling extensions in the following articles:
Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page
You have to reset search preferences. You can either reset it one by one manually following the removal guide here:
http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-remove-start-sweetpacks-and.html
or you can simply Reset Firefox, see this:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-preferences-fix-problems
Important! Save your bookmarks first!