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
EXE
c3b06ab3dac95756dd84559984c1de65
EXE
d26ebda6b01ed8e40de44b9d521d6ee5
EXE
b295ee63db590f331b2ef58ab1c7542a
EXE
27b9f252b2c6b86ff7913e473824aed4
DLL
42e389192fee0ae2299122dcc59b40ae
EXE
edd28d86d74c5cdbbd71e7c4454b497c
DLL
3a38d1002a97391fee93993b2f5297b3
DLL
036cab63afe53affe8cf36d9007f62a1
EXE
aa09d8db2287e3346afa5939e6a9e6c4
DLL
12aeef960ca5516808850b5ae2252f82