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
687eb12d4a7136d59135b3131e248c19
EXE
f0b44103f4233c17f05f498298abe6b3
DLL
204015cf328a3b666002dbd001baf459
EXE
4c8e322bb6363b2067e0783cde9e2ea1
EXE
6fe99560296215061b1ae3e09761b0a4
DLL
0c22db26f12e437cb17907d49716faca
DLL
3ce584504f178266493ea3f90b1c35dd
EXE
35a57549d9a8dc602ab68c22e7a0ec78
EXE
61e45c64db8b13e48367a09edf153085
DLL
ec4a99b13054dd243f2de7bfca35582a