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
e5c58a32b0fc4489ee512461fe3abe4e
DLL
4503be8c08455ebba54c083ff723195d
DLL
0aaec1752f4c63255bc06693c1e64944
DLL
05ed9f99791fdab48b8b0a1e6ac1878b
DLL
9d5c43adbc91e856194e747f3507751b
DLL
bdc8502f57ea8458aa58441972e07a70
DLL
087e361cda17e38cd42847270206397a
DLL
76454c1e0ac3318460c718c16ae40d83
DLL
3de82cdea61fbde5d2c76102988113a1
EXE
4b0a40f35d13dc4cf726b634ba862c32