SweetIM : What is it?

Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell.

SweetIM.exe is another process that seems to be creating a lot of questions. ZoneAlarm's anti-spyware function claims that it is spyware. No other anti-spyware vendor or anti-virus program that we can find agrees... Softpedia has certified the product as not having spyware. The company that makes SweetIM insists that it has no spyware.

From what we can tell, SweetIM is NOT spyware. We think it is a false positive from ZoneAlarm. However, all indications are that SweetIM is a pretty useless program to have, anyway.

The purpose of SweetIM is for you to be able to send fancier smiley-faces and IM graphics to friends who are using MSN Messenger. BUT - they are only able to see these advanced smiley-faces if they also have SweetIM installed. 

Our advice: uninstall the program, unless you really really love the features that SweetIM provides, and your buddies have SweetIM installed, too. It is better to err on the side of caution in this instance. 

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