Yahoo Community Smartbar

Yahoo Community Smartbar

Known Toolbar

by Linkury Inc.

What is Yahoo Community Smartbar?

Yahoo Community Smartbar is software application developed by Linkury Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 46.79% of installations running this operating system. Yahoo Community Smartbar's installer is typically 1.00 MB in size and installs around 185 files. The most common release is 11.112.66.19229 with 18.02% of all installations currently using this version.

Yahoo Community Smartbar is most popular in United Kingdom with 38.94% of installations residing in this country.

About Yahoo Community Smartbar?

Yahoo Community Smartbar is a web browser toolbar and extension designed to enhance the browsing experience with added search functionality and contextual search advertising. Compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, it is carefully engineered to protect and maintain the default browser search engine while offering search advertising revenue. Typically distributed through co-bundled offers within third-party software distributions, this software modifies the browser's search provider and home page, adding search functionality to the address bar, and seamlessly integrating contextual search advertising.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Yahoo Community Smartbar.

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:
https://www.linkury.com/index-8_faq.html
Support:
https://www.linkury.com
Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\smartbar\common\iconswide
Uninstaller:
MsiExec.exe /X{86E607EC-A3E4-4A09-8702-DA09B86D0F3F}
Size:
1.00 MB
Language:
English

Yahoo Community Smartbar Executable Details

Primary executable:
browserhelper.exe
Name:
Yahoo Community Smartbar
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\smartbar\common\iconswide\browserhelper.exe
MD5:
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Yahoo Community Smartbar
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
b2c003920e0a8f3f8e36aeebea8697ee
DLL
a565864517495112a6f2cbce6f169020
DLL
d7d36318347d46069d05ca434c2c9a62
EXE
3eb89385dd5aaba863f2babaeb76c015
EXE
53957c19f1e3adee2fb31f1cf21918db
DLL
0001cb8f935a893cc7760b93cd8b9709
EXE
50191e0c79bd9f38c7ddcd711417f3b1
DLL
5ead2b51f6da9a3e91edc7ba19d5d215
DLL
e4d8723336a01806b287efa54277dab6
DLL
564f5a6d72224b5d982c1cf4275e20cc