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
1d77165403516f1e1abd4e657952197e
EXE
316f87727cb3b384cf38e3e0bab21523
SYS
f45b9370bd2ff15902573a726276b009
EXE
233471566fd1acf2b7055afa92761a65
OCX
53d960b0c4ac007b8d59751e85445b3e
EXE
89d0a4acf8770fc08309561559c49b62
DLL
1d1685c95049e7bbc58cf43c2521fb84
DLL
8275c7d25638a9d12a3f01c02d8fac00
DLL
5b61b9cb68a5d5b7d52acf6608497351
DLL
8c69d36c30fc3a54d07b1740ee586beb