Contrary to what you may think, Yahoo Community Smartbar is not a software program developed by Yahoo!. It’s actually a toolbar and an add-on that was developed by the Israeli company Linkury Inc., which is well known for having developed numerous adware programs and other potentially unwanted programs like Linkury Smartbar, QuickShare and Safe Finder.
The Yahoo Community Smartbar toolbar is meant for the Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. Its objective is not only to change your browser’s settings without asking any permission whatsoever, but also to protect all the settings that it installs from being changed. That’s why it gets very difficult to get back your old settings. It’s usually the kind of unwanted program distributed as a package along with third-party programs that are free in most cases.
Here are the details of what Yahoo Community Smartbar does:
- Modifies the default search engine of the browsers on your operating system.
- Modifies your browsers’ home pages.
- Adds a search feature in the toolbar.
- Modifies the “not found” page.
- Displays advertisements non-stop.
Yahoo Community Smartbar is not yet detected by the main anti-virus programs, which is why we recommend that you use the selection of free programs found below in order to get rid of it.
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