GasGlance Toolbar

Posted by Lisa Blanc on October 15, 2015

What is GasGlance Toolbar?

GasGlance Toolbar is considered an annoying and useless toolbar and our researchers recommend that you remove it. Its only real purpose is to redirect web traffic to a modified Ask.com search engine that is also of questionable reliability. Thankfully, this toolbar is no longer available for download from its dedicated website. Nevertheless, it can still be found bundled with malicious software, so it is too soon to say that this program in gone for good. Therefore, we want to provide you with as much information about GasGlance Toolbar as possible. The toolbar itself is not malicious, but we have a problem with its promoted search engine. More details provided below. test test test

What does GasGlance Toolbar do?

Allegedly, this toolbar is supposed to help you find the best gasoline prices right there from your browser. However, all this program does is provide links to numerous third-party websites regarding fuel, but nothing more than that. So, you really do not need a toolbar which is just a collection of links, because you can bookmark websites yourself. Obviously, GasGlance Toolbar’s supposed primary function is just an afterthought as its true main purpose is to change your browser’s homepage and search provider, and thus redirect web traffic to the modified Ask.com website whose address is Home.tb.ask.com.

You may be interested to know that this search engine actually collects information about you. Here is an interesting quote from its privacy policy: “We use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, mobile device IDs and similar files or technologies to collect and store the information we automatically collect about your computer, device, and Service usage.” The collected information is used for various purposes also stated in the privacy policy. However, the most worrying one goes like this: “We use cookies to: enable Ask, Mindspark, APN and third-party advertising both on and off this website.” No one knows who these third parties are, so some of the ads may be misleading. These are legitimate concerns, because these third parties may promote unreliable software.

Where GasGlance Toolbar come from?

GasGlance Toolbar was developed by Mindspark Interactive Network. This developer has been releasing toolbars such as this one for years and years. It is interesting to see that this developer is starting to discontinue some of its products. But, rest assured, it will release plenty of new ones. We would like to give a dishonorable mention to some of this program’s clones, such as 100sOfRecipes Toolbar, SMSFromBrowser Toolbar, and DownloadManagerTool Toolbar.

GasGlance Toolbar is no longer available for download from its dedicated website at Gasglance.com. However, you can still get it via software bundles that are featured on shady free software distributing websites. So, our advice is to always opt for custom or advanced installation settings and remove any undesirable software by unchecking its checkbox. Also, you should avoid freeware distributing websites altogether as they are bound to bundle shady software.

How do I remove GasGlance Toolbar?

Typically, GasGlance Toolbar can be uninstalled via Control Panel and everything goes back to normal. However, in some cases it might leave its browser extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox, so you have to remove it separately. In most cases it does not work on Chrome, but we are going to include instructions on how to get rid of it from this browse as well.