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09/17/2008 (10:36 am)

When Googling Brad Pitt, Always Use Protection

That’s right, kids…better safe than sorry. Take a moment and check. Make sure you’re protected before you venture out into the netherworld known as the Weird Wide Web or you just might pick up something really nasty:

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.

One site advertising Angelina Jolie downloads, for example, contained 978 hidden malware-infected wallpaper and photo downloads, said McAfee. A site dedicated to Jessica Alba linked to other bad sites, contained misleading offers to gather information and produced a high number of spam e-mails when an e-mail address was provided.

Or better yet…when wishing to search for Brad Pitt photos, practice abstinence.

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