Search guard plus-is this a virus?

Hello,

I noticed a red shield with a yellow cross on the bottom right of my screen in the dock. It is a program called search guard plus(My Web Tattoo) and search guard plus update(My Web Tattoo) from Make the Web Better LLC. Not sure if this came with the computer or if its a virus. was on a web MD type site and a fake virus protector tried to install but I shut of the computer without hitting anything. Since then no real probelms. I ran Trend Micro internet security and it found 17 cases of spyware and quarantined them. On another note-is trend micro any good? On our other computer I just removed all antivirus software and installed the free home edition of avast and it seems to work great. Wondering if I should do that hear as well. I had a similar problem once on my windows xp machine and was able to clear my content.ie5 folder to get rid of it. But I dont think that works anymore in Vista? Thanks for any help you could give me.

I just noticed that I have the same thing and Googled it and found this post. I don't know where it came from. I never downloaded or installed it. I did download and install mkvtoolnix today but that was all.

Um,
I noticed it as well. After a little searching I realized that it is a Yahoo! tool. Yes, I have a choice of about a dozen search engines, but I really prefer to use Google. So I find it to be annoying to have to click on Google for every search, while Fast Browser Search is always automatic. This seems to be a benign hijacker to me, costing a couple of extra strokes. However, I work too fast to avoid it every time.

Here is the info that I found:

http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/y [...] tails.html

Rather than remove the program, I'm just going to try and disable it on my side and let my mate do what she wants. I'll let you know how this works.

Michael H.

Amarillo, TX