SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome
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What is SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome?
SearchYa! Toolbar is an ad-supported toolbar for Internet Explorer and Goolge Chrome. The programs collects and stores information about web browsing habits and sends this information to its remote servers in order to provide injected advertising in search results and various other places. It will also modify the browser's home page and search provider. It displays various pop-up advertisements and tracks and reports your web surfing behavior. It displays targeted search results and pop-up advertisements based on terms that the user enters for Web searches. The program also adds its own browser toolbar and installs a browser helper objects (BHO) in Internet Explorer for monitoring Web search terms and implementing the browser toolbar.
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1-click access to search results, most popular web sites and web services directly from our Searchya browser toolbar. First of all, The Software and Services are provided to you in order to enhance your web browsing ability, where some of the elements may add features to your browser and others may change existing feat... Read more
Overview
- Malware detected in the program
- Integrates into the web browser
- Typically distributed through a pay-per-install bundle
- Injects advertisements unassociated with the underlying web page
- Hijacks the web browser's home page
- Hijacks the browser's default search provider
- The experts agree, you should remove it!
Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome.
| searchyaTlbr.dll (61189c5bc82fbe4fd1da42b922e37729) has been flagged by the following 4 scanners: |
| Anti-Virus software | Version | Detection |
| Emsisoft Anti-Malware |
8.13.06.29.07 |
Riskware.WebToolbar.Win32.Searchya.AMN |
| IKARUS anti.virus |
t3scan.2.0.0.0 |
not-a-virus:WebToolbar.Win32.Searchya |
| Kaspersky |
14.0.0.3326 |
not-a-virus:WebToolbar.Win32.Searchya |
| TrendMicro-HouseCall |
7.2.180 |
TROJ_GEN.R1IH1DE |
SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome 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
Displayed publisher: Ironsource
URL: home.searchya.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\ironsource\searchya\1.5.13.0
Uninstaller: "C:\Program Files\Ironsource\searchya\1.5.13.0\uninstall.exe"
Estimated size: 1.99 MB
Files installed by SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome
| Program executable: | searchyasrv.exe |
| Name: | SearchYa Toolbar |
| Path: | C:\Program Files\ironsource\searchya\1.5.13.0\searchyasrv.exe |
| MD5: | 78301801b3ac5cd6cefed6621ebc9509 |
Additional files:
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uninstall.exe (by Ironsource) - ${PRDCT_DSP}
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searchyaApp.dll (by Montera Technologeis LTD) - Montiera Toolbar
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searchyaEng.dll (by Montera Technologeis LTD)
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(Malware detected) searchyaTlbr.dll
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escortShld.dll
Behaviors exhibited
Internet Explorer Toolbar
- searchyaTlbr.dll is loaded as Internet Explorer Toolbar with the name 'SearchYa Toolbar' with the class of {33AA308B-B565-4376-AC66-59EE9B6AD13E}.
How do I remove SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome?
You can uninstall SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome 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 SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome, 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 SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome.
- 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 SearchYa Toolbar on IE and Chrome 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.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 67%
Win Vista 1%
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HOW DOES IT RUN?
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Plugs into Internet Explorer
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 82%
Keep it 18%
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
| Windows 7 |
74.55% |
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| Windows XP |
15.15% |
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| Windows Vista |
7.27% |
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| Windows 10 |
3.03% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
36.65% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
19.25% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
14.91% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
8.70% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premiu... |
5.59% |
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| Windows 7 Home Basic |
4.35% |
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Geography
14.20% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
| United States |
14.20% |
| Belgium |
4.55% |
| Brazil |
4.55% |
| Germany |
4.55% |
| Hungary |
4.55% |
| Israel |
4.55% |
| Japan |
3.98% |
| Netherlands |
3.98% |
| Italy |
3.41% |
| India |
2.84% |
| Iran |
2.84% |
| Mexico |
2.84% |
| Sweden |
2.84% |
| Argentina |
2.27% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
| Hewlett-Packard |
26.00% |
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| Acer |
22.00% |
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| Dell |
14.00% |
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| ASUS |
8.00% |
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| Intel |
7.00% |
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| Samsung |
7.00% |
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| GIGABYTE |
5.00% |
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| Toshiba |
4.00% |
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| American Megatrends |
3.00% |
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| NEC |
2.00% |
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| Sahara |
2.00% |
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Common models |
| MSI MS-7592 |
3.06% |
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| HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... |
3.06% |
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| HP G62 Notebook PC |
3.06% |
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| Dell Inspiron 1545 |
3.06% |
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| ASUSTeK K53U |
2.04% |
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| Hewlett-Packard Presario ... |
2.04% |
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