Anyone familiar with PUP.Optional.Sweet.IM Virus? or Sweetpacks?

[Oldgamer]

I ran my Malwarebytes last week, and it came up with PUP.Optional.Sweet.IM threats 7. I deleted all of them through Malwarebytes, ran it again, and everything came up clean. I ran AVG and everything came up clean. Then ran Malwarebytes again this morning, and it showed 30 of the PUP. Sweetpacks things again this time. I went to a number of websites that seemed a bit confusing on how to remove this. When I go to my control panel I see the program but it doesn't let me uninstall it, nor does it let me simply delete it. When I run Malwarebytes and again remove all of them, it is clean again. Is anyone familiar with this? Is it a true virus or just some type of nasty adware program? Would love some feedback and how best to get this out of my system.

I think I may have inadvertantly downloaded this from a free game (possibly).

 

[DavidAtncus]

Hello Oldgamer,

I'm not familiar with those PUPs, but I was cruising the MBAM forum and found they made a change in PUP detection recently.
You can take a look at these MBAM threads and see if this might explain why you see a recent change in MBAM PUP detections.

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=130156

http://helpdesk.malwarebytes.org/en...-are-they-threats-and-should-they-be-deleted-

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=130207

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=130502

Hope this helps,
David

 

[Oldgamer]

Hello Oldgamer,

I'm not familiar with those PUPs, but I was cruising the MBAM forum and found they made a change in PUP detection recently.
You can take a look at these MBAM threads and see if this might explain why you see a recent change in MBAM PUP detections.

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=130156

http://helpdesk.malwarebytes.org/en...-are-they-threats-and-should-they-be-deleted-

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=130207

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=130502

Hope this helps,
David

Thanks for the information. I think I finally found the culprits on my system last night. I went looking around on my hard drive and found an old SuperAd Blocker folder which I uninstalled a long while back, and it had right below it another folder which was the sweetpacks folder, both dated the same date and time. I was able to delete these in their entireity, and deleted from my trash bin then ran a check dis/ clean disk to make sure I had gotten rid of any or all the remnants of deleted files. I ran another Malwarebytes run this morning and so far so good. Nothing has come up. Crossing my fingers those were the only files.

I will take a look at the links you provided, and thanks again!

 

[John]

Junkware Removal Tool
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/junkware-removal-tool/

AdwCleaner
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

Both should detect and remove Sweetpacks.