Muvic Smartbar Engine

Muvic Smartbar Engine

Known Toolbar

by Pinwid Ltd.

What is Muvic Smartbar Engine?

Muvic Smartbar Engine is software application developed by Pinwid Ltd.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 54.67% of installations running this operating system. Muvic Smartbar Engine's installer is typically 14.00 MB in size and installs around 203 files. The most common release is 11.113.58.19232 with 25.67% of all installations currently using this version.

Muvic Smartbar Engine is most popular in the United States with 71.58% of installations residing in this country.

About Muvic Smartbar Engine?

This software is designed to inject advertisements from affiliate ad providers, including banner, inline text links, and popups, in order to promote the installation of additional content such as web browser toolbars and optimization utilities. The purpose of this adware program is to generate pay-per-click revenue for the publisher. Common symptoms of infection may include hyperlinks appearing in random web page text, slow web page downloads due to multiple ads, and the installation of unwanted adware programs without the user's knowledge.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Muvic Smartbar Engine.

muvic.exe (MD5: 5231097f7873c3c514fe6a59d0bef519) has been flagged by 4 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AVG MalSign.Pindi
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.8b1
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F47V0227
VIPRE Antivirus Adware.Linkury (fs)

Startup Entries

Registry entries:
  • muvic.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\Muvic.exe startup.

Software Details

URL:
Support:
Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\smartbar\
Uninstaller:
MsiExec.exe /X{DB0139D6-A4B4-40AC-8275-CB70124D5A3C} /quiet ENGINE=1
Size:
14.00 MB
Language:
English

Muvic Smartbar Engine Executable Details

Primary executable:
muvic.exe
Name:
Muvic Smartbar Engine
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\smartbar\muvic.exe
MD5:
5231097f7873c3c514fe6a59d0bef519
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Muvic Smartbar Engine
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
b59375b14a5a499c49ac3a05c5048e26
OCX
a5809fc66776c7ac0d0174147095b1c3
OCX
0a2beffe5220bc33cc08870e51f837ab
OCX
3e3f166fd04c59f11296a9b0f60d7e8a
OCX
5b4d765589753ce7273632900763ae03
OCX
707b046f82d011db7f7e621ce87abe10
OCX
197b65b832ee986b7f7163bba1ce4422
DLL
755c3a76618188591dfec278ff422f6f
DLL
f2b7cf71e60c7208d0e30b8ee3fd8621
OCX
d5fc96c8c65bafe913674008757aab8a