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
00b9824f939977980219e89e504de1bb
EXE
e3c595cb06761ad131f31e001cde3dc1
DLL
ab93afdf3e397736b2628cb513114a55
DLL
6c4bc0724a24aea768fdffdb87cbb3a8
DLL
eb733e52778367ebf10bb0eebf8c461f
DLL
5cb2f15dcceb7e6b8a346fe7179f6cb6
DLL
41e7d65e0084e072678ad308d98398fd
DLL
64eda2c59aece932bdac7adabbccc91c
DLL
86ad50224fd7ffcb55ccf7840297f72c
DLL
7603257dd6744b10f3ca96d2e48298a1