Player bar thingy...?

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:odd: What's this... ? It's only shows up when I'm on GTP so I'm assuming it's part of this site?

playersg1.jpg
 
Never seen that before. There's a Yahoo symbol on the left side of the bar, so this may be connected to Yahoo somehow. Does that ring a bell?
 
Nope, don't add stuff like that especially since I got Foxy Tune already. Unless it loaded without my knowledge... No, no one else uses my computers. They have to know the password.

Actually, oddly... it only shows up when I'm on the TG thread it seems.
 
This is the website for it, I do see a bar at the bottom of the window (on your screenshot) that says much the same thing:

http://upyourego.com/blog/

Edit: Seems like he's got a Top Gear page:
http://upyourego.com/topgear/

Edit: Yeah, the link to the interview is from his website, I'm thinking something has been installed for a while but never noticed before. (On your end)

From,
Chris.
 
It stays on top of GTP so I'm assuming it's part of FF and not GTP's site. I don't see anything in the extensions though.

I've also never been to that site.
 
Nope, nothing like that should be displayed on any GTPlanet pages. If some of our advertising code had been compromised (or was displaying things that it should not), I would expect other people to be reporting it. Have you tried clicking on "learn more about this player"?

I've did a minute of research, and was able to identify the player. As you can see from the instructions, it should only be displayed on pages which contain that code, so some type of malware may be inserting it onto the page. Please provide a link directly to the page on which you see the player. While you're on the page, click "View" from the toolbar and select "Page Source". Looking at the Page Source, hit CTRL + F, and search for "mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js". If that is found, please copy and paste a few lines of the surrounding code into a post here.
 
Just went into the top gear thread and i get the same bar, but it's not playing anything.
it's minimized to the left.

edit: if i press the play button on the bar it also loads the interview with may

edit 2: only does it on this page: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=82030&page=154

edit 3: found this in the source code:
Code:
<div id=EchoTopic>
<a href="http://www.upyourego.com/topgear/a/mayonmayo.mp3" target="_blank">Here is a radio interview with May</a>, apparently TG might be back in October.
</div>

It's a post made by turbo lag with just a url to the file
firefox or foxytunes must have something to do with it
 
OK, interesting. Thanks for that update. You are using Foxy Tunes as well?
 
yep, and it looks like every link to a mp3 file triggers the yahoo player.

There's nothing in the source code, and no different services running, so it must be part of foxytunes or firefox

edit: and also found the option to turn it off. it's clearly foxy tunes doing this.
If i press the main menu button and go to configuration, there's an option 'Add media player to web pages'

When turned off the yahoo bar disappears
 
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