Looking for information about Brad Pitt or Beyonce on theweb could be risky!!!
This information is put forward by California-based McAfee Inc.
McAfee's most dangerous list include singers Mariah Carey, Rihanna and Fergie and film stars Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba, Cameron Diaz and George Clooney and Brad Pitt or Beyonce. Celebrity gossip could be leading you to these threads. According to McAfee, fans of these popular peoples - searching for information like gossips, pictures, or downloads, wallpaper and screen savers, have an 18% chance of having their PCs infected with a virus, spyware, spam, phishing and adware. Pitt and singer Justin Timberlake are the most dangerous men to search for on the Internet, while Beyonce and Heidi Montag, the star of the reality television show "The Hills", top the list for women.
Malware includes viruses, worms and spyware, which are computer programs that report back to a third party a user's activity and Web-surfing habits. The reasons for planting spyware range from simple marketing purposes to more serious things like stealing files or passwords of personal finance details.
Web surfers looking for celebrity gossip, screen savers and ringtones are often directed to fake Internet sites which pose a risk to the security of their computers.
Source : Reuters
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