Holiday malware - careful what you recommend

With the upcoming holiday season, for us in the IT (especially Information Security) industry - we should be vigilant what we recommend to our friends and relatives when they inevitably ask us for help with their ailing machines. Gotta love playing tech support!

I am sure you have used the great Spybot Search and Destroy tool for tracking down infections. Well, it seem the bad guys are "borrowing" their good name for their own nefarious purposes ... you see they have developed their own anti-spyware tool called (you guessed it) "Search and Destroy" (sans Spybot). They even created a website to download the tool at search-and-destroy .com.

From the F-Secure blog:

The site just uses a simple Flash graphic for basic animation; there are no fake "scans" that attempt to scare the visitor. It's all very quiet, relying perhaps on its name.

So far, no Google bomb attempts have been seen for this name-jack, but we should be sure to impress upon anyone we recommend this tool to that they want the Spybot version.