What is WhiteSmoke Smartbar?

WhiteSmoke Smartbar is software application developed by WhiteSmoke. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 71.88% of installations running this operating system. WhiteSmoke Smartbar's installer is typically 8.00 MB in size and installs around 117 files. The most common release is 1.60.44.11324 with 46.88% of all installations currently using this version.

WhiteSmoke Smartbar is most popular in the United States with 25.68% of installations residing in this country.

About WhiteSmoke Smartbar?

WhiteSmoke's SmartBar is a versatile web browser extension designed for use with Chrome, and as an add-in and BHO for Internet Explorer. It is capable of customizing the user's web browser search provider and pages, redirecting standard searches to its affiliate partners such as Linkury.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in WhiteSmoke Smartbar.

whitesmoke.exe (MD5: 433584cd8c6cc47dc7bdad4daaa99109) has been flagged by 22 scanners:

Scanner Software	Version	Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	536	Adware.Linkury.B
Agnitum Outpost	7.1.1	PUA.Toolbar.Linkury
ALYac	1.0.1.4	Adware.Linkury.B
avast!	2014.9-150817	Win32:SmartBar-A [PUP]
Avira	3.6.1.96	PUA/Linkury.Gen2
AVware	1.5.0.21	Adware.Linkury (fs)
Baidu-International	4.0.3.15817	Adware.Win32.Linkury.Ins
Bitdefender	1.0.20.1145	Adware.Linkury.B
Bkav FE	1.3.0.6379	W32.HfsAdware
Comodo Security	21595	ApplicUnwnt
Dr.Web	9.0.0.0229	Adware.Linkury.24
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	8.15.08.17.01	Adware.Linkury
ESET-NOD32	9.11401	a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Linkury.A potentially unwanted
Fortinet FortiGate	8/17/2015	Riskware/Toolbar_Linkury
G Data	15.8.25	Adware.Linkury
McAfee	5600.6670	Artemis!433584CD8C6C
MicroWorld-eScan	16.0.0.687	Adware.Linkury.B
nProtect	15.03.30.01	Adware.Linkury.B
Panda Antivirus	15.08.17.01	PUP/LinkUry
SUPERAntiSpyware	9686	Adware.Linkury/Variant
Symantec	8/17/2015 rev. 2	Adware.Maltrec.TS!g23
VIPRE Antivirus	38918	Adware.Linkury (fs)

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

whitesmoke.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\WhiteSmoke.exe startup.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.whitesmoke.com

Support:

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Installation path:

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

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /X{B017AEAA-2ACC-4D4A-9B45-AE913C6C6CE9}

Size:

8.00 MB

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