[Michael]

You may come across some sites that offer online searches in cool formats. For example, we found this Italian website that does a search in both Google and Yahoo!.

http://blogs.paretologic.com/malware...5/seohack1.png

It works well and presents the results in two diffent window panes:

http://blogs.paretologic.com/malware...5/seohack2.png

However, digging into the source code for that page, we found an infamous drive-by download (loader.exe) that happens to be nothing less than a Trojan Downloader.

http://blogs.paretologic.com/malware...05/seohack.png

That Trojan will download additional malware (dialer, password stealer) onto your computer.

As a general rule, it is safer to use your search engine directly from *the main site*(i.e. google.com). Many sites offer a search from their own page that claims to search the major search engines. However, it is often biased results that are returned, or even worse, malicious programs.

JSegura