Should I block it?

98%

Yes, 98% block recommendation.

Possible reasons:

Multiple malware detections

Performance resource utilization

Additional versions

1.6.1.760	8.33%
1.6.1.683	16.67%
1.6.1.631	8.33%
1.2.0.0	25.00%
1.2.0.0	41.67%

Relationships

Parent process

explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft Corporation)

Related files

Smartbar.exe

Smartbar by Smartbar

Remove Smartbar.exe

Version:	1.6.1.631
MD5:	c2af5707c1112b936e1c156c0f42cc62
SHA1:	328628394cd49e8e07fa1a106227a829b2f81f12
SHA256:	17c07512faff6a2ac8e8c31255f82908626093be66e1819f861858f6fa2df12a

Warning 14 antivirus scanners has detected malware.

What is Smartbar.exe?

Smartbar (Snap.Do) is a web browser addin/toolbar with Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox. Snap.Do provides social integration features for Facebook and Twitter. Privacy Policy: In order to facilitate, refine, personalize and match the identification and presentation of our products results to your browsing preferences and habits, we collect information regarding your use of our Product including URL and information of websites you browse while Smartbar is installed.

About Smartbar.exe (from Smartbar)

“Snap.do works on all 3 major web browsers – Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Simply get it now to start snapping! Snap.do will always be there when you need it. Once you got it yo”

Details

File name:	smartbar.exe
Publisher:	Smartbar
Product name:	Smartbar
Typical file path:	C:\users\user\appdata\local\smartbar\application\smartbar.exe
File version:	1.6.1.631
Size:	13.5 KB (13,824 bytes)
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:	Windows GUI
File packed:	No
Code language:	Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET
.NET CLR:	Yes
.NET NGENed:	No

More details

Programs

The following program will install this file

Messenger Plus! Community Smartbar

Messenger Plus!

62% remove

The Toolbar installs into your Internet browser and allows you to search the Internet with MyWebSearch, a known potentially unwanted program that changes and redircts all of your search results as well as DNS errors, and modifies your home page to mywebsearch.com or some other webpage. MyWebSearch automatically becomes your default search service which hijacks all your search requests as well as tracks your Internet surfing behavior to ...

Behaviors

Startup files (user) run

Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'

'Browser Infrastructure Helper' → C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Smartbar\Application\Smartbar.exe startup

Network connections

[TCP] 65.52.146.240:80

[UDP] listens on port 62432

Malware detections

Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 14 of them detected the following malware.

Antivirus engine	Engine version	Detection
AVG	2014.0.3629	Toolbar.NC
BitDefender	7.2	Adware.Generic.382644
Comodo Internet Security	16490	ApplicUnwnt
Dr.Web	8.13.6.16	Trojan.MulDrop4.24551
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	3.0.0.581	Adware.Generic.382644 (B)
ESET NOD32	7.8487	a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Linkury.A
F-Secure	11.0.19100.45	Adware.Generic.382644
G Data	13.7.22	Adware.Generic.382644
Kingsoft	2013.4.9.267	Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud)
eScan by MicroWorld	12.0.250.0	Adware.Generic.382644
PC Tools	9.0.0.2	HeurEngine.ZeroDayThreat
Trend Micro HouseCall	9.700.0.1001	TROJ_GEN.F47V0225
Vba32 AntiVirus	3.12.22.2	AdWare.MSIL.Agent
VIPRE Antivirus	19018	Adware.Linkury (fs)

Resource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00002554%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00000758%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00001796%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	112,212 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	1,341,916/sec	17,470,203/sec
Memory
Private memory:	162.29 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	159.63 MB
Private (minimum):	117.79 MB
Non-paged memory:	162.29 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	650.94 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	659.64 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	134.71 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	161.11 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	5,119,776/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	123.11 KB/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	55/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	66 Bytes/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	1/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	322 Bytes/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	14/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	57	12
Handles:	1518	600
GUI GDI count:	126	103
GUI GDI peak:	138	142
GUI USER count:	428	49
GUI USER peak:	441	71

Process properties

Integrety level:	Medium
Platform:	64-bit
Command line:	"C:\users\user\appdata\local\smartbar\application\smartbar.exe" startup
Owner:	User
Parent process:	explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft Corporation)

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