Alexa related? False positive?

[Chainsaw]

Spbot 1.6, Win2Kpro - no evidence of malware, no computer problems (the end of a long cleanup of a recently purchased machine).

I've read a bunch of alexa-related threads, and there clearly IS a problem with Alexa, but I don't have it, nor AFAIK any signs of it.

Spybot flags my "related.htm" as "alexa related". The contents look like

<script>
//Build the query
userURL=external.menuArguments.location.href;
RelatedServiceURL="http://www.google.com/ie?as_rq=";

//Perform simple check for Intranet URLs
//this is where the http or https will be, as found by searching for :// but skip res:
protocolIndex=userURL.indexOf("://",4);
serverIndex=userURL.indexOf("/",protocolIndex + 3);
urlresult=userURL.substring(0,serverIndex);

//Check if Intranet URL - then open search bar

if (urlresult.indexOf(".",0) < 1) userURL="Intranet URL";
finalURL = RelatedServiceURL + encodeURIComponent(userURL);
external.menuArguments.open(finalURL, "_search");
</script>

So why is it a security risk? Am I missing some detail because I don't actually USE IE?

And if I wish IE to search using Google instead of MSN search, what is the correct way to get Spybot to acknowledge it? Do I have to file it as an individual exclusion? And will this prevent Spybot from detecting if it is altered later by malware to something other than google?

[Yodama]

hello,

thank you for reporting this issue. Spybot S&D was supposed to only find the file if it has been tempered by Alexa. Thus this will be confirmed as a false positive and fixed with the next update scheduled for next Wednesday.