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
baee9809854d0a9b160ca7eb18b4368d
EXE
c5bc3d856c77bc50fb4f06591205e1b1
EXE
4c61991a20929056776b7e8584bb67c0
DLL
460094e1cc3febc5ea97eab4b0746714
DLL
a697442262fc08a4569ee6f337d6f4d4
DLL
8160a4440ef9fc6873dd47978f18c4c2
EXE
1a0932bbb4e3a90a0819412d3aaa3901
DLL
88715da8bad862dc23df0224bddf02e1
EXE
5cdbe92bc6517a89799d741f85b5279d
DLL
e6dec46536a3eaad0e4e16cf94656fcd