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
a7546e8d2f5da77348b1956a78e72ec2
EXE
e99a05003752c4455f36ff9b2a64beb8
DLL
9376dfe697d3eb4932e8b2ace7d015e6
EXE
653eeee1411e0f35b8f020387d2ccdc1
DLL
80725a732aba27911402f9ca09fede23
DLL
454273739eb2d0f5d01fe1fb03b38555
DLL
d757d82187f5e630c3cbfd15a3381115
EXE
8909cf5f18c856b68e32e33794bbcafa
DLL
7d25d50b6321c28b85465daffe38d0af
DLL
ee49ca5ba211aba9018936895a6e303f