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
CRX
73ed3569bd69c863537eca148711d1a7
DLL
e2172cb80d688c5399310e116bd3d939
DLL
6957f2362acb644ce6283876b1c853c5
DLL
5fbe1a8ef0e1fa881b7b010d6e4b48c7
DLL
33530872147fae3eb11b44acaf326ee9
DLL
a2d13cd84bf55cb34a8a6d9040c74d1b
DLL
6436d8b70535c68b2fd47d5aeffa499a
DLL
f284b9c4ef14dd8f48f5abb4fa1f7414
DLL
d05884a4f18c9306b6e1aebd43941ce1
DLL
e1aaf2c3a37e27af4e8cedef05116cba