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
d7d5e5fd961465643a81af5cd53c80ba
DLL
1eb69d27811655cf151a6b4669ee22ef
DLL
1f47cf2454d75d1c0a6571e2bef9ba90
DLL
5faf038cbba842837d6fdf5c7f98a216
DLL
5dd64f59df8290c3dbd8df9eab8dec3e
DLL
320599909b7e4be82c60194c08af8268
DLL
24e33788b4108b2a4a0adfc0c95889c5
DLL
ed9b6b06ca920314f8a6558c5a2e3fec
EXE
7190470386e84c3b32126e5c847a6a7b
DLL
7f3383368fa02cbf2a9ad2688803cb06