SweetIM - Requesting Help
Need help removing Sweet IM displays from my FB.
Sweet IM continues to show up as a toolbar embedded in the body of my FB page at the top just above where we enter our statuses. It continues to also show up in my chat windows. How do I get rid of these embedded displays?
I have removed Sweet IM from my computer using the Windows Control program, remove programs feature. I have also deleted all Sweet IM Cookies. All of these actions appear to have worked, but I cannot find a way to remove it from my FB page and chat, and it was never intended for FB. I initially downloaded it to augment my Yahoo Messenger app only.
And a Sweet IM support link, listed in an earlier response purportedly by a rep from Sweet IM, directed me to a generic Yahoo list only and not to anything remotely resembling a Sweet IM help support site.
I got rid of it in 1 hour
I just uninstalled sweetim. As it wasn't gone still from my browser, then I just deleted my main internet browser, restarted the computer and voila. After that I just installed the internet browser I used befor back again.
Quote from the SweetIM Support page
I have tried to remove SweetPack/SweetIM by using Windows Add/Remove. After I did it, it still showed up in Internet-Explorer and Mozilla. I was able to uninstall it for Mozilla but not for the Internet-Explorer. And now I'd like to quote the Support from SweetIM:
Quote:
SweetIM for Internet Explorer doesn’t appear in Add/Remove list, but still shows up in IE
Let’s try a different way to uninstall SweetIM:
1. Click on “Tools” at the top of your Internet Explorer window
2. Select “Manage Add-Ons”
3. If you are using Internet Explorer 8/9, click “Toolbars and Extensions”.
If you are using Internet Explorer 7, click “Disable or Enable Add-ons”.
If you are using Internet Explorer 6, continue to the next step.
4. Highlight “SweetIM for Internet Explorer”, choose “Disable” and click “OK”.
(Source: Goto http://sweetim.sweetpacks.com/support/ and enter "SweetIM for Internet Explorer doesn’t appear in Add/Remove list, but still shows up in IE")
So, what they officially tell you here is:
"You can not really uninstall SweetIM. You can only deactivate it. We do not provide any way to remove it completely."
This is really a bad piece of software!
So why is Sweetim apparently the world's 125th most populer .com?
People here want to get rid of Sweetim.
When I look at the world's most visited domains, sweetim.com is the world's 125th most popular! Either a lot of people love it, or more likely a lot of people don't know how to get rid of it.
If I believe the rankings on the below website (domaintyper.com/top-websites/most-popular-websites-with-com-domain), Sweetim.com is more popular than renren.com, badoo.com, Vimeo.com and tube8.com (also not suitable for kids!). This high ranking coupled with poor content implies that the visits to the Sweetim website are involuntary. In other words, your computer is visiting sights that you never requested. That makes it dangerous in my view. I would remove the App ASAP.
Ranked list of the world's most popular .com websites:
https://domaintyper.com/top-websites/most-popular-websites-with-com-domain