While we won’t comment on her ability to attract mates, this time around, Cameron Diaz’ killer good looks is known to draw searchers to malicious websites.
Security firm McAfee, acquired by Intel on August 19th, publishes a list of the most dangerous Web celebrities each year based on searches that yield results leading to malicious sites. Diaz tops that list followed by Julia Roberts and Jessica Biel.
So if you plug Diaz’ name in a search string, you have a one-in-ten chance of coming up with a site infected with or spreading malware, according to McAfee. If you search for “Cameron Diaz and screensavers” that doubles your risk. Basically, these site owners hope to lure you in to their sites in hope of stealing passwords and collecting private information they can profit from.
Dave Marcus, McAfee’s director of security research and communication warns: “This year, the search results for celebrities are safer than they’ve been in previous years, but there are still dangers when searching online. Now they’re hiding malicious content in ‘tiny’ places like shortened URLs that can spread virally in social networking sites and Twitter, instead of on websites and downloads.”
On the average, McAfee finds about 60,000 newly created pieces of malicious programming a day and the number keeps increasing each year. For more on the dangerous celebrity list, visit:
http://home.mcafee.com/AdviceCenter/Default.aspx?id=ad_sfs_mmdc
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