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
036cab63afe53affe8cf36d9007f62a1
EXE
aa09d8db2287e3346afa5939e6a9e6c4
DLL
12aeef960ca5516808850b5ae2252f82
DLL
8b28c401b84c10bcee836a585fb0ccc8
DLL
7dc924e8f2763fb60e7427a38b19268c
EXE
758047c681c5c8957d78dc93ca2e1981
CRX
cebdc7f314dea14dfe86693486a66e5b
XPI
ff686d9d8308a7079624f3870f2ee0ef
EXE
d1c435782feb5f229178c0e225a7befa
DLL
eea775029916960e673a1cf16a73508a