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Updated for Sweetpacks installed itself on to Firefox (22.0) and I can disable it, but not remove it.

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The Updater for Sweetpacks add-on has no button for removal only a button to disable. Any suggestions for permanently removing this add-on?

The Updater for Sweetpacks add-on has no button for removal only a button to disable. Any suggestions for permanently removing this add-on?

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Look for SweetPacks updater or SoftwareUpdater and uninstall it.

http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-remove-start-sweetpacks-and.html

Then run Malwarebytes and AdwCleaner. If it's still there, reset Firefox.

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See the following article.

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Sweetpacks is adware, and should be uninstalled from control panel first. This will likely to remove it from browser aswell. Anti-Malware programs detect Sweetpacks, so you can run Adwcleaner or Junkware removal tool scan.

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This worked great. Used the uninstaller in CCleaner and removed the SweetPacks Updater. Restarted Firefox and no add.on.

MalewareBytes did not initially detect SweetPacks when I did a flash scan. Will do a complete scan just to be safe.

Thanks

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Look for SweetPacks updater or SoftwareUpdater and uninstall it.

http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-remove-start-sweetpacks-and.html

Then run Malwarebytes and AdwCleaner. If it's still there, reset Firefox.