I sure HOPE you did not click the ad for the fictional 'Process Lasso 2011'! The only reason the MyWOT RED icon is RED is due to my report of it there only about an hour ago.
It turns out this site is using hundreds (or thousands) of popular shareware utilities as adwords in an effort to distribute a 376KB trojan of some sort. ALL DOWNLOADS take you to this same file. Please BEWARE! It may take the anti-malware researchers time to catch up to this.
Remember, this is just not Process Lasso that was targeted as an adword, it is almost any shareware you can think of. It then directs you to a generic page that has the name and software description changed to whatever you had searched for. From there you get that 376KB trojan. I've heard its a BHO (browser extension for IE), but do not know as I haven't analyzed it. It likely is, and someone is getting paid for it per install. The thought of somebody getting rich from this is sickening.
Fortunately, it *seems* most likely that this is a simple IE browser extension, which is no good, but could be worse. At least it is *hopefully* easy to get rid of. I can NOT say that for sure though at this time.
UPDATE: This has been reported to Google and others. The ads for hundreds of fake 'products' continues as of 04/25/2011 (now).
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