Conduit Engine beta

from Conduit Ltd.

Remove Conduit Engine (beta)

What is Conduit Engine beta?

Conduit Engine is installed along with one of 260,000 Conduit's Community toolbars (you can see the brands that have created a community toolbar using Conduit Platform at: http://www.conduit.com/Showcase/Showcase.aspx). The engine allows you to add browser apps from the Conduit App Marketplace (http://apps.conduit.com).

About (from Conduit)

Conduit Engine is the module of Conduit Open that allows users to add apps directly to their browser without a community toolbar. It offers you an important new distribution option for your Conduit-powered offerings. Users who don’t have a community toolbar are offered Conduit Engine (existing users add it to their too... Read more

Overview

Upon being installed, the software adds a Windows Service which is designed to run continuously in the background. Manually stopping the service has been seen to cause the program to stop functing properly. It adds a background controller service that is set to automatically run. Delaying the start of this service is possible through the service manager. It adds a Browser Helper Object (BHO) to Internet Explorer. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. The primary executable is named ConduitEngineHelper.exe. Many users end up uninstalling this after less than a month of it being installed. It also bundles additional software in the form of the Conduit Engine, which installs a potentially unwanted toolbar, and makes homepage and default search engine changes to a user's web browser. The setup package generally installs about 4 files and is usually about 2.55 MB (2,677,363 bytes).

Malware detected in the program
Integrates into the web browser
Built on and distributed using the Conduit toolbar
Installs a Windows Service
The wisdom of the experts agree, if you don't use it you should remove it!

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Conduit Engine beta.

ConduitEngineHelper.exe (79b6d161e646d69d9db612bc0346e38b) has been flagged by the following 2 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
Panda Antivirus	14.01.26.01	Adware/Conduit
VIPRE Antivirus	25458	Conduit (fs)

Program details

URL: www.ourtoolbar.com

Installation folder: C:\Program Files\ConduitEngine

Uninstaller: C:\Program Files2\CONDUI~1\ConduitEngineUninstall.exe

Estimated size: 2.55 MB

This is a Community Toolbar by Conduit, what does that mean?

Conduit is a toolbar monetization platform for software publishers. It provides a utility for developers to create branded generic web browser toolbars. Publishers can bundle these toolbars with their software programs or provide access to download them separately through www.ourtoolbar.com. Once installed, the toolbar modifies the browser's home page and search settings in order to redirect searches through the Conduit portal (which utilizes Bing or Yahoo! Search engines). Read more...

Files installed by Conduit Engine beta

Program executable:	ConduitEngineHelper.exe (Malware detected)
Name:	EngineHelper Application
Path:	C:\Program Files\ConduitEngine\ConduitEngineHelper.exe
MD5:	79b6d161e646d69d9db612bc0346e38b

Additional files:

(Malware detected) ConduitEngineHelper.exe - EngineHelper Application
ConduitEngineUninstall.exe - Conduit Engine Uninstall
ConduitEngine.dll - Conduit Engine Bate (Conduit Engine Beta)
UNWISE.EXE

Behaviors exhibited

Internet Explorer BHO

ConduitEngine.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'Conduit Engine (beta)' with the class of {30F9B915-B755-4826-820B-08FBA6BD249D}.

Scheduled Task

UNWISE.EXE is scheduled as a task with the class '{F71A9918-1861-4EFE-AE94-530BDDE46DD4}' (runs on registration).

Service

UNWISE.EXE runs as a service named 'Browser System Enahncer' (671c50b0).

Windows Firewall Allowed Program

UNWISE.EXE is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\UNWISE.EXE'.

How do I remove Conduit Engine beta?

You can uninstall Conduit Engine beta 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 Conduit Engine (beta), 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 Conduit Engine beta.
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.