What is ShowPass Smartbar?

ShowPass Smartbar is software application developed by ReSoft Ltd.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 51.61% of installations running this operating system. ShowPass Smartbar's installer is typically 10.00 MB in size and installs around 100 files. The most common release is 11.116.76.19268 with 39.80% of all installations currently using this version.

ShowPass Smartbar is most popular in the United States with 43.31% of installations residing in this country.

About ShowPass Smartbar?

ShowPass Smartbar is a web browser extension that operates as an ad-supported program, delivering various types of advertising to the user's browser. It is commonly bundled by third-party installers and download managers. This extension is compatible with Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox browsers, and is designed to inject advertisements in the form of full banners and text hyperlinks into the web pages that the user visits. These ads may be inserted within existing white space or may overwrite the existing ads on the page. ShowPass Smartbar is also capable of targeting ads based on the user's search queries, tracking the web pages visited, search terms used, and domains accessed.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in ShowPass Smartbar.

showpass.exe (MD5: 14fd4f269d758a1a1f6c70dc6930551e) has been flagged by 18 scanners:

Scanner Software	Version	Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	663	Adware.Linkury.S
ALYac	1.0.1.4	Adware.Linkury.S
AVG	2016.0.3141	Generic
AVware	1.5.0.21	Adware.Linkury (fs)
Bitdefender	1.0.20.515	Adware.Linkury.S
Comodo Security	21620	ApplicUnwnt
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	8.15.04.13.04	Adware.Linkury.S
ESET-NOD32	9.11414	a variant of MSIL/Toolbar.Linkury.A potentially unwanted
F-Secure	11.2015-13-04_2	Adware.Linkury.S
G Data	15.4.25	Adware.Linkury
McAfee	5600.6797	Artemis!14FD4F269D75
MicroWorld-eScan	16.0.0.309	Adware.Linkury.S
nProtect	15.04.01.01	Adware.Linkury.S
Sophos	4.98	Generic PUA CO
Symantec	4/13/2015 rev. 2	WS.Reputation
Trend Micro	10.465.13	ADW_Linkury.component
TrendMicro-HouseCall	7.2.103	ADW_Linkury.component
VIPRE Antivirus	38988	Adware.Linkury (fs)

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

showpass.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Browser Infrastructure Helper' and executes as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Smartbar\Application\ShowPass.exe startup.

Software Details

URL:

https://snap.do

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\users\user\appdata\local\smartbar\common\iconswide

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /X{CCBA4895-11F3-4D81-B430-A37DA2198E68} /quiet

Size:

10.00 MB

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