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SweetIM Firefox 3.0.3 redirect problem [RESOLVED]

#1 fortune82

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Posted 09 November 2008 - 05:20 PM

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My mom, without quite knowing what she was doing, installed SweetIM on our computer. I already knew it to be a malicious program from several forum posts about it (apparently very difficult to uninstall/doesn't uninstall). Well, after cleaning it up, I still have but 1 problem. When you type something like "google" into the search bar at the top of Firefox, instead of the standard "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google redirect, it goes to "http://search.sweetim.com/search.asp?src=2&q=XXXX" where "XXXX" is what you searched for.

Question is, how do I fix this?

#2 fortune82

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Posted 11 November 2008 - 02:24 PM

Problem Resolved.

Ran Firefox in safe mode then used the pop-up to reset everything to the defaults.

#3 Rorschach112

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Posted 11 November 2008 - 03:59 PM

Since this issue appears to be resolved ... this Topic has been closed. Glad we could help. :)

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