[pchelpers] News:McAfee: Brad Pitt fan sites may be bad for your computer

Posted by Robert Vamosi

Want to download a Brad Pitt screen saver? What about images of Beyonce?
If you're using a site you're not familiar with, you may want to
reconsider.

According to McAfee, when searching for "Brad Pitt," "Brad Pitt
downloads," or Brad Pitt wallpaper, screen savers, and pictures,
Internet users experience an 18 percent chance of stumbling upon sites
containing malicious code. This includes drive-by malware that can
infect your PC without asking you to download anything. Such social
engineering, once reserved for e-mail, is now being used to populate
search results with fake sites for these personalities

More here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10042735-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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