Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine

Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine

Known Toolbar

by ReSoft Ltd.

What is Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine?

Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine is software application developed by ReSoft Ltd.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 51.45% of installations running this operating system. Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine's installer is typically 20.00 MB in size and installs around 261 files. The most common release is 10.215.63.15249 with 36.27% of all installations currently using this version.

Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine is most popular in the United States with 22.15% of installations residing in this country.

About Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine?

Shopping Helper Smartbar is a web browser extension supported by ads that may not be desired by users. It will display popup and banner ads and modify the user's web browser search and home page settings. This extension updates Internet Explorer as a BHO, Chrome as an extension, and Firefox as an add-in. In certain cases, the program may monitor user behavior, which users agreed to by not reading the full EULA, and insert rival advertisements or new ones altogether. The toolbar is commonly bundled by third-party download managers/installers or through questionable online ads.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine.

smartbar.exe (MD5: efb88b6504c7c8370f0d63ace6da825f) has been flagged by 3 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Dr.Web Adware.Linkury.1
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Linkury.A
VIPRE Antivirus Adware.Linkury (fs)

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:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Smartbar\Application\Smartbar.exe startup.

Software Details

URL:
https://snap.do
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\adobe\reader 9.0\reader\plug_ins
Uninstaller:
MsiExec.exe /X{9726F9E3-EE13-4601-B2AF-81B1413BD8AF} /quiet ENGINE=1
Size:
20.00 MB
Language:
English

Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine Executable Details

Primary executable:
smartbar.exe
Name:
Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine
Path:
C:\Program Files\adobe\reader 9.0\reader\plug_ins\smartbar.exe
MD5:
efb88b6504c7c8370f0d63ace6da825f
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Shopping Helper Smartbar Engine
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
cf3df6df0a7969ee54e586b607076f55
DLL
ae273eadbbec3e531854cea45c4d2f4e
DLL
afab8e22db3b291dc38cecf5419346a0
DLL
44629a619746dd663930015e236ceadd
DLL
75f1a4e7f0318d5104c5a04d6f20948b
DLL
a565864517495112a6f2cbce6f169020
DLL
d7d36318347d46069d05ca434c2c9a62
EXE
3eb89385dd5aaba863f2babaeb76c015
EXE
53957c19f1e3adee2fb31f1cf21918db
DLL
0001cb8f935a893cc7760b93cd8b9709