What is Bubble Dock?
Bubble Dock is adware application, which installed in your browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE) and enabled you a quick access to news, games, Facebook, mail, IP TV, YouTube. To connect, the user only has to click the button. Bubble Dock started to display sponsored pictures and other unwanted things. Bubble Dock doesn’t change Homepage in your browser or browser’s interface. There is a toolbar on your desktop (looks like Mac OS). In plus Bubble Dock can redirect you to unsafe sites. That’s why Bubble Dock is a potentially unwanted program.
How Bubble Dock gets on your PC?
Bubble Dock can be installed from download websites with theirs downloaders. Why? Because sites like softpedia, zdnet or soft32 earn money for advertising. Take careful when you download or install something. Always disagree with install offers of any unwanted program.
How to remove Bubble Dock from your computer?
To uninstall Bubble Dock remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Bubble Dock in their database. You can try to use them for removing Bubble Dock.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Bubble Dock.
You can try both of these products to remove Bubble Dock
Or uninstall Bubble Dock manually.
Removing from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Bubble Dock.
- Click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.
Windows 7/Windows Vista:
- Click Start.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find Bubble Dock and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.
Windows 8/Windows 8.1:
- Open the Menu.
- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find Bubble Dock, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
After that remove Bubble Dock from your browser.
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Bubble Dock.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Bubble Dock.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Internet Explorer:
- Open IE.
- Push Alt + T.
- Click Manage Add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Click Disable Bubble Dock.
- Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
- Click Remove button.
- If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.
Learn more about removing extensions from IE.
Remove following registry entries:
HKCUSoftwareNosibay
HKCUSoftwareClassesbubbledock
HKCUSoftwareClasses.bubbledock
HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallBubble Dock
HKLMSOFTWAREGoogleChromeExtensionskbjlipmgfoamgjaogmbihaffnpkpjajp
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerBrowser Helper Objects{23AF19F7-1D5B-442c-B14C-3D1081953C94}
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesNosibay.SurfMatch
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesAppIDIESurfMatch.DLL
Then remove following files:
Bubble Dock Update.exe
Bubble Dock.exe
CommonSrv.dll
gdiplus.dll
LBubble Dock.exe
MFC71.dll
axSurfMatch.dll
Bubble Dock.lnk
GCSurfMatch.crx
WindowsHook.dll
Uninstall Bubble Dock.exe
And these folders
%APPDATA%Nosibay
%PROGRAMS%Bubble Dock
%PROGRAMFILES%Nosibay
Written by Aleksei Abalmasov