Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine

Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine

Known Toolbar

by Linkury Inc.

What is Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine?

Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine is software application developed by Linkury Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 53.88% of installations running this operating system. Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine's installer is typically 24.00 MB in size and installs around 331 files. The most common release is 11.112.66.19229 with 18.83% of all installations currently using this version.

Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine is most popular in Germany with 34.56% of installations residing in this country.

About Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine?

The Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine is a web browser toolbar and extension designed to enhance browsing experiences by providing an array of useful features. This versatile toolbar seamlessly integrates with popular browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. Its key functions include modifying the default search engine and search provider, customizing the browser's home page, integrating search functionality into the address bar, and offering an alternative redirection for "page not found" errors. Additionally, it delivers contextual-based advertising to users to enhance their online experience. The software ensures the protection of the default browser search engine while providing search advertising revenue. Typically, the Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine is installed through a co-bundled offer within third-party software distributions.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine.

smartbar.exe (MD5: b295ee63db590f331b2ef58ab1c7542a) has been flagged by 10 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Adware.Linkury.B
Bitdefender Adware.Linkury.B
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Adware.Linkury
G Data Adware.Linkury
IKARUS anti.virus AdWare.Linkury
MicroWorld-eScan Adware.Linkury.B
nProtect Adware.Linkury.B
Panda Antivirus PUP/LinkUry
Rising Antivirus PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.16EBB848!384546888
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0613

Startup Entries

Registry entries:
  • smartbar.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\Smartbar.exe startup.

Software Details

URL:
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Linkury\smartbar
Uninstaller:
MsiExec.exe /X{C2FFB695-B1D6-4602-9159-9C70C55E1A04} /quiet ENGINE=1
Size:
24.00 MB
Language:
English

Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine Executable Details

Primary executable:
smartdraw.exe
Name:
Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine
Path:
C:\Program Files\Linkury\smartbar\smartdraw.exe
MD5:
95215240e983b5bf6077d545e558621e
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
ad3addd6f0e778dd3d3463e35b0c6203
DLL
1f05465f927eaacd462c84e552709817
DLL
527f71b4da87f2e3d47c83b947d74290
EXE
a9cd526773b449a1d10975301948131a
DLL
3e4c508a0b34d5d814f292db9dc38a04
EXE
850056bfba31b4f953a8daef511a6d5a
EXE
ea7e4d623e0a15af27dba746cd39975b
DLL
2706ec4f531da030c64d1788543fef72
EXE
6e5cacc11fa92d37726694ecf5c6d0da
DLL
390c14e9bf265a77bce567b70924eeff