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Ambiguity in the nature of Sweet Page consists in its denoting both a rather harmless web page and a highly annoying application. It reflects the widespread cybercrime tendency that exists on the frontier between the acceptable and illegitimate, namely adware propagation. A campaign like this starts with someone out there deciding to make a fast buck by displaying third-party advertisements on the Internet. Sounds like a heck of a business, but the issue of attracting visitors to a landing page occurs. That’s where malicious code comes into play. Adware is capable of hijacking web browsers on compromised computers to then divert web traffic to pre-specified sites. In the case of Sweet Page, the homepage address for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and other browsers gets modified without user authorization. This value, along with the preferred search provider, is automatically transformed into sweet-page.com which is depicted below.
The contamination itself usually stems from a file or program download instance, where the user thinks they’re getting something useful and safe but in fact an unwanted bundle infiltrates the PC as a drive-by. To its credit, the adware in question may pose as itself, that is, Sweet Page Browser New Tab extension, but that’s a rare case moreover the user has no idea what this entity is going to do to the machine. More frequently than not it comes as part of apps like WMP, Extended Protection, IePluginService, and SupTab, the setup wizards for which do not indicate that an extra object is included.
As it has been mentioned, this virus doesn’t ask for user consent when twisting the settings for browser homepage and default search system. The victim thus recurrently goes to sweet-page.com which looks like a search engine of a kind. In fact though, it is simply a traffic distribution page linking to a completely different service – a reputable one, actually. But before the redirect occurs, users get to see a banner that is probably well paid for. This particular monetization principle is dominating in today’s world of adware.
As soon as common sense takes over, it becomes clear that Sweet Page must by all means be removed from the computer it’s on. It turns out a hard nut to crack though because of the persistence of this virus: the respective browser extension removal alone will not do the trick. What will help is a sequence of steps highlighted below, where a mix of using professional software and manual transactions completely eliminate this adware.
CCleaner by Piriform is an efficient solution designed to automatically uninstall persistent malware such as the unwanted browser extensions related to Sweet Page hijacker and cease the browser redirect activity.
When the screen for program removal appears, look for the following items:
– Sweet Page Browser New Tab extension
– Sweet Page uninstaller
– WPM
– Extended Protection
– IePluginService
– SupTab
Screenshots by Remove Sweet Page portal
If located on the list, these should be uninstalled immediately as they are known to cause sweet-page.com to show up in one’s web browser without user consent.
Scan your system with Bitdefender, the Privacy PC Gold Award winner in Internet security suites category, to make sure all registry entries and junk files added by Sweet Page hijacker have been cleaned up. This step will help you ascertain that no remainders of the infection are still there in case you missed something or if the adware has restored some of its components after manual removal.
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