Hello forums, I am a trial user of Malware Bytes Anti-Malware battling a handful of unwanted programs. A few years ago, my computer was the victim of a browser hijack and trojan from a company called "Sweetpacks". We successfully removed the trojan with Microsoft Security Essentials and fixed the damage to Chrome, but Internet Explorer still makes me extremely uncomfortable. A few days ago, I noticed the presence of Sweetpacks Internet Explorer Toolbar in my program list from a few years ago. Fearing we missed something, I ran multiple virus scans with no yield. After this, I attempted to uninstall this program, but gave the Sweetpacks uninstall the administrator password! (It did uninstall the program, but I'm unsure what else it may have done! This was extremely foolish of me.) I downloaded MalwareBytes and it picked up a plethora of garbage, ranging from Arcade Giant to Conduit to multiple other disgusting programs. There were also a huge amount of Sweetpacks files scattered throughout the registry and burrowed deep into multiple user's browser toolbars and extensions. Through the use of MalwareBytes, all of these items were quarantined and deleted. One however, is being detected by the threat scan after every restart. This Registry Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432NODE\MICROSOFT\INTERNETEXPLORER\SEARCHSCOPES\{EEE6C36... is being detected once with every scan. I don't understand the registry enough to know what this means! Why might this object be getting flagged with every scan? Why does it persist/get recreated upon each restart? Should I be worried about other unwanted programs returning on my computer? Additionally, can I trust that Microsoft Security Essentials is actually not locating any threats? Should it have found anything associated with these unwanted programs? Thanks so very much for your assistance, Johnathan
