What is SafeFinder Smartbar?

SafeFinder Smartbar is software application developed by Linkury Ltd.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 53.14% of installations running this operating system. SafeFinder Smartbar's installer is typically 9.00 MB in size and installs around 129 files. The most common release is 11.114.72.19232 with 34.38% of all installations currently using this version.

SafeFinder Smartbar is most popular in the United States with 36.58% of installations residing in this country.

About SafeFinder Smartbar?

SafeFinder is an internet browser extension/add-on that delivers advertising to the user's browser. The ads come in various forms such as search-related ads, banners, video ads, and text-links (roll-overs), as well as some popup ads. These ads are typically displayed in the header or footer of the web page. Additionally, SafeFinder has the ability to convert words on viewed pages into hyperlinks linked to advertisements. It is important to note that this application is classified as adware and/or a potentially unwanted program (PUP) due to its behavior.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in SafeFinder Smartbar.

safefinder.exe (MD5: f955adcf13c05eb0352f56f0ef6d0e87) has been flagged by 15 scanners:

Scanner Software	Version	Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	807	Adware.Linkury.F
AVG	2015.0.3285	Generic
Avira	7.11.171.20	APPL/Linkury.Gen2
AVware	1.5.0.16	Adware.Linkury (fs)
Bitdefender	1.0.20.1620	Adware.Linkury.F
Comodo Security	19435	ApplicUnwnt
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	8.14.11.20.10	Adware.Linkury
F-Secure	11.2014-20-11_5	Adware.Linkury.F
G Data	14.11.24	Adware.Linkury
IKARUS anti.virus	t3scan.1.7.5.0	AdWare.Linkury
MicroWorld-eScan	15.0.0.972	Adware.Linkury.F
nProtect	14.09.05.01	Adware.Linkury.F
Qihoo-360	1.0.0.1015	Win32/Trojan.8b1
TrendMicro-HouseCall	7.2.324	TROJ_GEN.R047H09HH14
VIPRE Antivirus	32856	Adware.Linkury (fs)

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

safefinder.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\SafeFinder.exe startup.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.linkury.com/faq/s/faq.aspx?company=safefinder

Support:

https://www.linkury.com

Installation path:

C:\users\user\appdata\local\smartbar\common\iconswide

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /X{B685D7F1-BAC8-4318-8137-A774268BBD39}

Size:

9.00 MB

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