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post #1 of 11
11/11/12 at 9:46pm
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I've been seeing this tool bar pop up periodically in firefox and opera browser. Primarily use opera, but caught it in firefox. Security Essentials hasn't seemed to do anything... Any ideas?



Notice the toolbar at the top. I was randomly checking on a scam message I've been getting on my phone. -.-
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post #2 of 11
11/11/12 at 9:54pm
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It looks to me like it's a part of their site because it is inside the browsing window.  Do you see it on other sites too, or is it just scambook?

It's like advanced alien technology! :)
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post #3 of 11
11/11/12 at 10:05pm
Maybe try using internet exploer? I know its not "cool" to use IE but you may want to look at a few things here.
1. The browsers you use have obviously had problems
2. If you are getting trouble on your phone and your comp you may want to take a look at your browsing habbits. For example, porn sites are probably the worst offender when it comes to putting bad crap on your computer.

Oh btw, did you get your money back from sextoyau.com?
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post #4 of 11
11/11/12 at 10:23pm
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i just sat browsing scambook on waterfox and IE and did not see that toolbar.. might be my settings that have blocked it and by the looks it might just be a popup from that site me thinks
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post #5 of 11
11/11/12 at 10:26pm
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I wonder if it can only show up if you're signed in to it.

It's like advanced alien technology! :)
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post #6 of 11
11/11/12 at 10:29pm
i dont think that's the case. The toolbar doesnt really pertain to the website at all.

Check your firefox extensions. See if it appears in another browser. start running a quick or full malwarebytes scan.
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11/11/12 at 10:35pm
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I just noticed on the far left it says "Back to Google".  So, this may be some kind of Google search app or something.  I recommend clicking the question mark.

It's like advanced alien technology! :)
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post #8 of 11
11/12/12 at 12:44pm
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Lol yeah I know about browsing and all. But it's appeared in more than one browser. I just happen to see it in that website it only comes up occasionally, it didn't seem legit to me. There are no extensions for it in opera or mozilla.

Also about IE, yeah I'd love to use IE. It does full screening right, GPU accel and looks much nicer than other browsers. But Opera is stupidly fast, and chrome links my pages so I can just open it on my phone and go to what's open on my computer. So it's difficult haha. Plus some reason IE crashes randomly very often but fixes it'self instantly. Just says it crashed but it just like refreshed all the pages, got annoying. And I did just remember it usually comes up in google searches I'll check that out..

"Oh btw, did you get your money back from sextoyau.com?" That website wasn't my entry just something I was viewing.
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Maybe try using internet exploer? I know its not "cool" to use IE but you may want to look at a few things here.
I'm cool and I use IE.
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post #10 of 11
11/12/12 at 12:48pm
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Okay just figured out it's called buzzdock. And it was only on firefox I just wasn't remembering it right... Here's the solution that worked in case anyone needs:

"I had this problem too after updating to Firefox 6. Every Google search was preceeded by that annoying Buzzdock thing, appearing just in time to get clicked instead of the first result.

This is in fact caused by a Firefox Add-on called "Yontoo Layer" which is part of PageRage, so you just need to uninstall this one and the problem is solved:

Go in the "Firefox" (or "Tools") menu; Click on "Add-ons"; Select "Extensions" on the left; Search for "Yontoo Layer" on the right; Click on its "Remove" button; Restart Firefox."

-http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/855404
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