American celebrity Jessica Biel is reportedly the riskiest US celebrity target on the internet with one in five celebrity websites related to her being potentially harmful, closely followed by Beyonce Knowles, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston, Gisele Bundchen, Miley Cyrus, Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie, Ashley Tidsdale, etc., reports coming from internet security and virus protection company McAfee.
The British celebrity and former lingerie model Katie Price, also known as Katie Price Jordan and Katie Jordan, has been rated as the "most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace" by a survey by internet researchers. The survey found that if you search for news, photos, or anything relating to Price you have the chance of one-in-six clicking on very risky websites loaded with spyware collecting information about users without their knowledge with the goal of making money and committing ID theft (identity theft), besides viruses that can infiltrate computers. Of late Price has been a lot on tabloid news and internet gossip sites because of her divorce with her ex husband Peter Andre, the eccentric and often hilarious behavior of the model, and the latest gossip on Price's relationship with cage fighter Alex Reid. You have the next danger of infected with viruses, malware or spyware in Price's ex Peter Andre who came in joint 14th position of danger level of spreading virus infection.
When computer security and protection company McAfee used search boxes of search engines like Google and Yahoo! in an effort to assess how far is celebrity names targeted by cyber criminals spreading malware and viruses, they found more than 16% of websites and web links related to Katie Price had risky contents.
Closely following Katie Price is Jude Law, who had the second highest percentage of related websites targeted by cyber crooks. And interestingly Law’s ex wife Sadie Frost was 13th most dangerous cyber celebrity. If you want to have something on the royal celebrity Prince Harry, you have one in 20 chance of clicking on some virus infected link.
Supermodel Kate Moss comes in at fourth, while singer Lily Allen, recently spotted on holiday with Moss was 12th. Victoria Beckham with her new role on American Idol spiced up with David Beckham's falling out of grace with LA Galaxy fans made the couple dangerous cyber searches, as they occupy five positions - Victoria Beckham third dangerous with 13.6% and David Beckham fifth with 12.1%.
Top 10 risky British celebrities and the percentage of websites related to them which were found to be potentially harmful:
- Katie Price - 16.3%
- Jude Law - 15.4%
- Victoria Beckham - 13.6%
- Kate Moss - 12.6%
- David Beckham - 12.1%
- Daniel Radcliffe - 12%
- Kerry Katona - 9%
- Amy Winehouse - 8.6%
- Cheryl Cole - 8.5%
- Leona Lewis - 8.3%
Top 11 risky US celebrities and the percentage of websites related to them which were found to be potentially harmful:
- Jessica Biel - 20.1%
- Beyonce - 17.9%
- Tom Brady - 17.4%
- Jessica Simpson - 17.6%
- Jennifer Aniston - 12.3%
- Gisele Bundchen - 15.8%
- Miley Cyrus - 15.5%
- Megan Fox - 15.3%
- Angelina Jolie - 15.3%
- Ashley Tidsdale - 14.9%
- Brad Pitt - 14.8%
McAfee's principal security analyst Greg Day said, "Cybercrooks capitalising on the public obsession with celebrities and current events is nothing new... A quick flick across the front pages of the latest popular newspapers and magazines offers a fairly reliable snapshot of where the criminals will focus their efforts next."
Now, are you worried about viruses/Trojans, malware, spyware, adware, etc.? Want to search, find and download music, photos, videos, and more on your favorite celebrities without getting infected? If so, use internet traffic light system called McAfee SiteAdvisor which flags up what are safe and what are not, and also test websites for spyware and other dangerous internet worms. SiteAdvisor is FREE and available for free download at
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