News Microsoft seeking spyware trojan

Large software company based in Redmond seeks spyware trojan for fun, late night coding sessions, litigation and maybe more. GSOH essential.

This from the beeb:

Microsoft is investigating a trojan program that attempts to switch off the firm's anti-spyware software.

The spyware tool was only released by Microsoft in the last few weeks and has been downloaded by six million people.

Stephen Toulouse, a security manager at Microsoft, said the malicious program was called Bankash-A Trojan and was being sent as an e-mail attachment.

Microsoft said it did not believe the program was widespread and recommended users to use an anti-virus program.

The program attempts to disable or delete Microsoft's anti-spyware tool and suppress warning messages given to users.

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