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
81f6b313360733270b452b7a3efb386b
DLL
43feb3fb04239ef98d437465b8247f3f
DLL
19ee800a9ff35e9b018e888838237f19
DLL
51a8321567e51b1cbe897146e38fb663
DLL
dc2a14d77f4825cc28f990e319953a85
EXE
62523097451d13083660dfce265c11bc
DLL
1d1685c95049e7bbc58cf43c2521fb84
DLL
19f6f8736f89c0d828ebd229e0a5da56
DLL
0e78d3717deff0a7b29dab321b142101
DLL
80c856fddc70b25d22187d8fe4b79e62