Ask Social Toolbar

Ask Social Toolbar

Known Toolbar

by APN, LLC

What is Ask Social Toolbar?

Ask Social Toolbar is software application developed by APN, LLC. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 61.11% of installations running this operating system. Ask Social Toolbar's installer is typically 496.00 KB in size and installs around 11 files. The most common release is 12.10.6.5291 with 19.44% of all installations currently using this version.

Ask Social Toolbar is most popular in the United States with 39.21% of installations residing in this country.

When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Ask Social Toolbar is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Ask Social Toolbar?

The Ask Social Toolbar is a browser extension provided by Ask.com (Ask Partner Network) that offers a range of web browsing features. It may modify the user's home and search pages to utilize Ask.com's managed partner search engine.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Ask Social Toolbar.

tbnotifier.exe (MD5: 33be35574e1081a91eacd2b98e0a472a) has been flagged by 3 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AhnLab-V3 PUP/Win32.IECore
Baidu-International PUA.Win32.AskToolbar.bF
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Ask.F

Software Behaviors

Firewall:
  • tbnotifier.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\AskPartnerNetwork\Toolbar\Updater\TBNotifier.exe'.

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • tbnotifier.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named ApnTBMon.

Software Details

URL:
Support:
https://apnstatic.ask.com/static/toolbar/everest/documents/faq/index.html
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\askpartnernetwork\toolbar\updater
Uninstaller:
MsiExec.exe /X{504C542D-534F-4300-76A7-A758B70C0A00}
Size:
496.00 KB
Language:
English

Ask Social Toolbar Executable Details

Primary executable:
tbnotifier.exe
Name:
Ask Social Toolbar
Path:
C:\Program Files\askpartnernetwork\toolbar\updater\tbnotifier.exe
MD5:
33be35574e1081a91eacd2b98e0a472a
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Ask Social Toolbar
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
33be35574e1081a91eacd2b98e0a472a
EXE
822add6f0a321a8b3f907f9effd0eaaf
EXE
e798f169dcb1e99c9f35dbdb5c7423ae
EXE
b75a16943804753554d4a9c6d581639b
DLL
91a62a9e3bd3f86364c25a0eab04f41c
DLL
1dcabb6f59478efd9b0174de7b53ad00
DLL
24d26984ca957246e080ae7cf2e745e9
DLL
35bc1d1ce229c3efd6b2d53aba70dcc8
DLL
dc2a14d77f4825cc28f990e319953a85
EXE
62523097451d13083660dfce265c11bc