Should I remove Community Smartbar?
What percent of users and experts removed it?
70% remove it30% keep it
What do people think about it?
(click star to rate)
How common is it?
Global Rank #19,019
United States Rank #10,186
Reach 0.0120%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 41.66 days
1228.88 days >
Average installed length: 645.68 days
Versions
| Version | Distribution |
| 1.6.1.928 |
0.42% |
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| 1.6.1.761 |
13.92% |
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| 1.6.1.760 |
17.72% |
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| 1.6.1.638 |
6.75% |
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| 1.6.1.637 |
3.38% |
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| 1.6.0.350 |
3.80% |
|
| 1.6.0.349 |
1.69% |
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| 1.6.0.338 |
0.42% |
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| 1.6.0.335 |
2.53% |
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| 1.6.0.320 |
2.11% |
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| 1.6.0.319 |
2.11% |
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| 1.6.0.304 |
0.42% |
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| 1.6.0.288 |
1.69% |
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| 1.6.0.286 |
0.42% |
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| 1.6.0.217 |
0.42% |
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| 1.6.0.155 |
0.84% |
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| 1.6.0.154 |
0.42% |
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| 1.6.0.139 |
0.84% |
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| 1.6.0.97 |
0.42% |
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| 1.6.0.88 |
0.42% |
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| 1.6.0.48 |
2.53% |
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| 1.6.0.15 |
1.69% |
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| 1.5.0.338 |
0.42% |
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| 1.5.0.288 |
0.84% |
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| 1.5.0.286 |
0.42% |
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| 1.5.0.30 |
2.53% |
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| 1.5.0.29 |
1.27% |
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| 1.5.0.28 |
0.84% |
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| 1.5.0.4 |
1.69% |
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| 1.4.0.1797 |
5.06% |
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| 1.4.0.1662 |
3.38% |
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| 1.4.0.1546 |
0.42% |
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| 1.4.0.613 |
17.30% |
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| 1.4.0.459 |
0.84% |
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Community Smartbar
from Linkury Inc.
What is Community Smartbar?
Community Smartbar is an ad-supported (users may see additional banner, search, pop-up, pop-under, interstitial and in-text link advertisements) cross web browser plugin for Internet Explorer (BHO) and Firefox/Chrome (plugin) and distributed through various monitization platforms during installation. The browser extension includes various features that will modify the default or custom settings of the browser including the home page, search settings and in some cases will modify Internet Explorer's load time threshold, place a lock file within firefox to prevent competing software from changing its settings as well as disable the browser's Content Security Policy in order to allow for cross site scripting of the plugin.
About (from Linkury)
Linkury Smartbar is an ad-supported (users may see additional banner, search, pop-up, pop-under, interstitial and in-text link advertisements) cross web browser plugin for Internet Explorer (BHO) and Firefox/Chrome (plugin) and distributed through various monetization platforms during installation. The browser extensio... Read more
Overview
- Possible malware installed by this program
- Automatically starts with Windows
- Typically distributed through a pay-per-install bundle
- Displays unwanted advertisements
- May modify the web browser's home page
- Generally known to have a low reputation
- Many experts agree, if you don't use it you should remove it!
Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Community Smartbar.
| smartbar.exe (06b738d809525eaaf42978026799048c) has been flagged by the following 24 scanners: |
| Anti-Virus software | Version | Detection |
| Lavasoft Ad-Aware |
1104 |
Adware.Generic.394007 |
| Agnitum Outpost |
7.1.1 |
Adware.Agent |
| AVG |
2015.0.3582 |
Toolbar |
| Baidu-International |
4.0.3.14126 |
Trojan.Win32.Agent.AG |
| Bitdefender |
1.0.20.130 |
Adware.Generic.394007 |
| CMC Antivirus |
1.1.0.977 |
AdWare.MSIL.Agent!O |
| Comodo Security |
17661 |
ApplicUnwnt |
| Dr.Web |
9.0.0.026 |
Trojan.MulDrop4.24551 |
| Emsisoft Anti-Malware |
8.14.01.26.08 |
Adware.Generic.394007 |
| ESET-NOD32 |
8.9329 |
a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Linkury.A |
| Fortinet FortiGate |
1/26/2014 |
Adware/MSIL_Agent |
| F-Secure |
11.2014-26-01_1 |
Adware.Generic.394007 |
| G Data |
14.1.24 |
Adware.Generic.394007 |
| Kaspersky |
14.0.0.4406 |
not-a-virus:AdWare.MSIL.Agent |
| Kingsoft AntiVirus |
331020.49267 |
Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud) |
| McAfee |
5600.7238 |
RDN/Generic PUP.z!cw |
| McAfee-GW-Edition |
7.7238 |
RDN/Generic PUP.z!cw |
| MicroWorld-eScan |
15.0.0.78 |
Adware.Generic.394007 |
| NANO AntiVirus |
0.28.0.57380 |
Trojan.Win32.MulDrop4.cbfizq |
| Sophos |
4.97 |
Generic PUA II |
| Trend Micro |
10.465.26 |
ADW_LINKURY |
| TrendMicro-HouseCall |
7.2.26 |
ADW_LINKURY |
| Vba32 AntiVirus |
3.12.24.3 |
TScope.Trojan.MSIL |
| VIPRE Antivirus |
25724 |
Adware.Linkury (fs) |
View all 24 all detections
Community Smartbar has been found to be bundled with 3rd party software. If you have not purposefully installed this, you should be safe uninstalling it.
Program details
URL: www.linkury.com
Installation folder: C:\ProgramData\linkury\iconswide
Uninstaller: MsiExec.exe /X{FB510426-2010-400A-8F58-3B460718195C}
(The Windows Installer is used for the installation, maintenance, and removal.)
Estimated size: 3.74 MB
Language: English (United States)
Files installed by Community Smartbar
| Program executable: | linkury.exe |
| Name: | Linkury Smartbar |
| Path: | C:\Program Files\linkury\linkury.exe |
| MD5: | 5cf7616e775277f3e4f2c46973f3acce |
Additional files:
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browserhelper.exe - BrowserHelper
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mactrackbarlib.dll
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microsoft.practices.enterpriselibrary.common.dll (by Microsoft) - Microsoft Enterprise Library for .NET (Enterprise Library Shared Library)
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microsoft.practices.enterpriselibrary.exceptionhandling.dll (by Microsoft) - Enterprise Library Exception Handling Application Block
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microsoft.practices.enterpriselibrary.exceptionhandling.logging.dll - Enterprise Library Exception Handling Logging Provider
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smartbar.gui.controls.dll - Smartbar.GUI.Controls
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smartbar.gui.mainclient.dll - Smartbar
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smartbar.infrastructure.businessentities.dll - Smartbar.Infrastructure.BusinessEntities
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smartbar.infrastructure.core.dll - SmartbarProxy
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smartbar.infrastructure.plugins.base.dll - Client (Plugins)
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smartbar.infrastructure.plugins.chromelocalplugin.dll - ChromeRemotePlugin
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smartbar.infrastructure.plugins.defaultbrowser.dll - DefaultBrowser
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smartbar.infrastructure.plugins.sharemanagerlocalplugin.dll - SearchResultsLocalPlugin
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smartbar.infrastructure.utilities.dll - SmartbarGUI
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smartbar.personalization.businessentities.dll - Smartbar.Personalization.BusinessEntities
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smartbar.personalization.businesslogic.dll - Smartbar.Personalization.BusinessLogic
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smartbar.personalization.common.dll - Smartbar.Personalization.Common
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smartbar.personalization.settings.personalizationsettingsmanager.dll - Smartbar.Personalization.Settings.PersonalizationSettingsManager
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smartbar.personalization.settings.usersettingsmanager.dll - UserSettingsManager
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smartbar.resources.historyandstatswrapper.dll - Smartbar.Resources.HistoryAndStatsWrapper
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smartbar.resources.sidebyside.dll - Smartbar.Resources.SideBySide
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smartbar.resources.socialnetssharer.dll - Smartbar.Resources.SocialNetsSharer
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smartbar.resources.socialnetssharer.xmlserializers.dll
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smartbar.resources.urlhistorysupplier.dll - Smartbar.Resources.UrlHistorySupplier
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smartbar.resources.utilities.dll - Smartbar.Resources.Utilities
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microsoft.practices.enterpriselibrary.logging.dll - Enterprise Library Logging Application Block
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microsoft.practices.objectbuilder.dll - Microsoft.Practices.ObjectBuilder
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ndde.dll (by Brian Gideon) - NDde
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smartbar.gui.docking.dll - Smartbar.GUI.Docking
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smartbar.gui.multimedia.loader.dll - Smartbar.GUI.Multimedia.Loader
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smartbar.infrastructure.eventmanager.dll
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smartbar.personalization.servicesplugins.dmp.dll - DefaultMailProvider
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smartbar.personalization.servicesplugins.messengerplugin.dll - MessengerPlugin
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smartbar.personalization.servicesplugins.notepadplugin.dll - NotepadPlugin
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smartbar.personalization.servicesplugins.screencaptureplugin.dll - ScreenCapturePlugin
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smartbar.personalization.servicesplugins.wordplugin.dll (by xxx) - WordPlugin
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smartbar.personalization.servicesplugins.youtubedownloadplugin.dll - YoutubeDownloadPlugin
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smartbar.resources.automaticupdates.dll - Smartbar.Resources.AutomaticUpdates
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smartbar.resources.processdownmonitor.dll - Smartbar.Resources.ProcessDownMonitor
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smartbar.resources.setbrowserssettings.dll - SetBrowsersDefinitions
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smartbar.resources.setbrowserssettingsautoupdater.dll (by Smartbar) - Smartbar.Resources.SetBrowsersSettingsAutoUpdater
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interop.shdocvw.dll - Assembly imported from type library 'SHDocVw'.
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microsoft.mshtml.dll - Assembly imported from type library MSHTML
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regasm.exe - Microsoft® .NET Framework (Microsoft .NET Assembly Registration Utility)
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smartbar.infrastructure.plugins.firefoxlocalplugin.dll - FireFoxRemotePlugin
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smartbar.infrastructure.plugins.internetexplorerlocalplugin.dll - InternetExplorerLocalPlugin
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin.dll
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin_10.dll
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin_5.dll
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin_6.dll
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin_7.dll
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin_8.dll
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin_9.dll
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smartbar.resources.languagesettings.dll - Smartbar.Resources.LanguageSettings
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smartbar.resources.productuninstaller.dll - Smartbar.Resources.ProductUninstaller
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smartbar.resources.translations.dll - Smartbar.Resources.Translations
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin_11.dll
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin_12.dll
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smartbarfirefoxremoteplugin_13.dll
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smartbarinternetexplorerbho.dll - Community Smartbar
Behaviors exhibited
Startup File (User Run)
- smartbar.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\Smartbar.exe startup.
How do I remove Community Smartbar?
You can uninstall Community Smartbar from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
- On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
- Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
- When you find the program Community Smartbar, click it, and then do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
- Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
- Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Community Smartbar.
- If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.
How do I reset my web browser?
If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by Community Smartbar you can restore them to their previous default settings.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer and click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
- Click the Advanced tab, and then click Reset. Select the Delete personal settings check box if you would also like to remove search providers, Accelerators and home pages. When Internet Explorer finishes applying default settings, click Close, and then click OK.
- The changes will take effect the next time you open IE.
Mozilla Firefox
- At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help sub-menu and select Troubleshooting Information.
- To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens. It will close and be reset.
- When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.
Google Chrome
- Open Chrome and click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
- Select Settings. In the "Search" section, click Manage search engine. Check if (Default) is displayed next to your preferred search engine. If not, mouse over it and click Make default. Mouse over any other suspicious search engine entries that are not familiar and click X to remove them.
- When the "Show Home button" checkbox is selected, a web address appears below it. If you want the Homepage button to open up a different webpage, click Change to enter a link.
- Restart Google Chrome.
WHEN IT STARTS
Auto-starting? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 70%
Keep it 30%
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GLOBAL RANK
 #19,019
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
| Windows 7 |
78.06% |
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| Windows Vista |
16.03% |
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| Windows 10 |
4.22% |
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| Windows XP |
1.69% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
71.31% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premiu... |
13.08% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
3.38% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
3.38% |
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| Windows 10 Home |
2.11% |
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| Windows Vista Home Basic |
2.11% |
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Geography
89.82% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
| United States |
89.82% |
| United Kingdom |
7.12% |
| Australia |
1.27% |
| Canada |
0.76% |
| PR |
0.51% |
| Austria |
0.25% |
| NG |
0.25% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
| Hewlett-Packard |
33.15% |
|
| Dell |
22.28% |
|
| Acer |
21.20% |
|
| Toshiba |
13.59% |
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| ASUS |
4.89% |
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| Lenovo |
1.63% |
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| Sony |
1.63% |
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| American Megatrends |
0.54% |
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| Gateway |
0.54% |
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| Apple |
0.54% |
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Common models |
| Dell Inspiron 1545 |
4.08% |
|
| HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... |
4.08% |
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| Dell Inspiron N5110 |
3.40% |
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| TOSHIBA Satellite C655D |
3.40% |
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| TOSHIBA Satellite C655 |
2.72% |
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| HP Pavilion g7 Notebook P... |
2.72% |
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