How To Remove Home.sweetim.com From Computer

Tips To Delete Home.sweetim.com From System

Home.sweetim.com is a notorious web domain that works as a search provider. It pretends to be a real search engine and claims to improve your web browsing experience by offering most relevant, authentic and fast search results. It even appears as a genuine search tool similar to Google, Yahoo and Bing. However, on the contradictory to whatsoever is claimed and how it appears, it is indeed a hazardous computer threat designed by a team of potent Cyber criminals for promotional and commercial purposes. Once this nasty PUP successfully infiltrates your PC, first of all it makes unexpected modifications in default browser’s settings and assigns itself as the new home page, search engine and new tab addresses without even asking for your permission.

While using Home.sweetim.com as the default search engine, you only get inorganic results that have no relation with your queries. It floods your system screen with thousands of annoying ads and pop-ups all over the day that makes your Online browsing very complex and problematic. It displays eye-catching offers, deals, coupons, banners, discounts etc. and tries to make you click on them in order to earn revenues for the authors by cost-per-click technique. Clicking on these adverts though can be very risky for your PC’s security as they might include spiteful links and redirect you to potentially dangerous websites that are filled with malevolent contents. And thus, stay away from these adverts and try to get rid of Home.sweetim.com from the machine without wasting any time.

Software Bundling is Closely Related to PUP Distribution:

The most likely scenario of getting infected with browser hijackers involves some free applications you have recently installed on your computer. Freeware programs are sometimes bundled with all sort of PUPs and spread through some third-party installers and download managers that are often designed for this purpose. You can get unsecured programs from third-party downloading web portals such as brothersoft.com, cnet.com, soft32.com and brothersoft.com. And hence, the genuine free applications will not be generally bundled with PUPs, of you download it from official site. Another vital thing to remember is that you should always analyse each step of the installation process carefully. This is where most of the PUAs and multiple plug-ins, add-ons and toolbars are often hidden. Pay close attention to Custom and Advanced options and deselect everything that give a concerning look.

Other Harmful Properties of Home.sweetim.com:

Home.sweetim.com is capable of deactivating all the running security measures and Windows Firewalls and making the device vulnerable for more nasty infections. It may easily bring other Online threats such as rootkits, worms, spyware, Trojans and even deadly ransomware in your computer and turn the machine into a malware-hub. This nasty hijacker tracks your web activities and collects vital information regarding your interests and needs which is then utilized by scammers for the advertisement campaign. It can also steal your personal and confidential information such as user IDs, passwords, credit card, debit card, bank account and other financial details and expose them to hackers for evil purposes. Crooks can misuse your sensitive information for generating illicit revenues and cause you to suffer a big financial loss. It eats up huge amount of memory resources and slows down the overall computer performance drastically. Due to this, PC starts responding slower than ever before and takes more than usual time to complete any task. And hence, to prevent all these hazards from being occurred, you must remove Home.sweetim.com from the computer immediately.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Home.sweetim.com:

Remove the related items of Home.sweetim.com using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Home.sweetim.com issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Home.sweetim.com) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Home.sweetim.com removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Home.sweetim.com still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Home.sweetim.com plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Home.sweetim.com removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Home.sweetim.com (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.