What is Linkury Smartbar?

Linkury Smartbar is software application developed by Linkury Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 78.79% of installations running this operating system. Linkury Smartbar's installer is typically 7.00 MB in size and installs around 164 files. The most common release is 1.24.22.10764 with 35.71% of all installations currently using this version.

Linkury Smartbar is most popular in Germany with 29.45% of installations residing in this country.

About Linkury Smartbar?

The Smartbar software offers the following functionalities: - The ability to change the default search engine in your web browser's built-in search box - The ability to change the default home page of your web browser - Alternative "page not found" functionality - Search capability from the address bar of your web browser - Software updates for the application when new versions are released - Adding, removing, or modifying components interacting with search input fields Privacy Policy: "In order to enhance, personalize, and tailor the presentation of our product results to your browsing preferences and habits, we collect information related to your use of our Product, including URL and information of websites you browse while Smartbar is installed." The software is typically bundled with third party installers such as Open Candy and offers a search toolbar that enables users to access results from different search engines, post content to social networks, and reach web applications in pop-out windows. Please note that this includes a homepage reset and default search change.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Linkury Smartbar.

linkury.exe (MD5: 227e76b4d222eb6bc11f4444b94b1964) has been flagged by 13 scanners:

Scanner Software	Version	Result
AVG	2015.0.3564	Toolbar
Baidu-International	4.0.3.14214	Trojan.Win32.Agent.AqE
Dr.Web	9.0.0.045	Trojan.MulDrop4.24551
ESET-NOD32	8.9271	a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Linkury.A
Fortinet FortiGate	2/14/2014	Adware/MSIL_Agent
Kaspersky	14.0.0.4315	not-a-virus:AdWare.MSIL.Agent
McAfee	5600.7220	RDN/Generic PUP.x!bcx
McAfee-GW-Edition	7.7220	RDN/Generic PUP.x!bcx
NANO AntiVirus	0.28.0.57029	Trojan.Win32.MulDrop4.bkvhwr
Norman	10.20140214	Suspicious_Gen4.EHHIY
Sophos	4.96	Generic PUA CN
Vba32 AntiVirus	3.12.24.3	TScope.Trojan.MSIL
VIPRE Antivirus	25262	Adware.Linkury (fs)

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

linkury.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Browser Infrastructure Helper' and executes as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Smartbar\Application\Linkury.exe startup.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.linkury.com

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\ProgramData\linkury\iconswide

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /X{8EA6A274-9C75-40B4-991F-01482D89D1A7}

Size:

7.00 MB

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