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It wasn’t surprising that Paris Hilton would give you viruses, we expected that, but now Brad Pitt is more apt to crash your hard drive. McAfee has released a list of names entered into a search engine that are most likely to lead you to malware-hosted sites. While the main culprit was Hilton last year, she doesn’t even make the top ten this year. Pitt, however, will get you a one in five chance of internet infestation.
The top ten bad-news names from one to ten are Pitt, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Heidi Montag, Mariah Carey, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz, George Clooney and, surprise, Angelina Jolie.
If you’ve never heard of some of these people then it’s a fair bet that you are not the intended target of a technique that has been for some years one of the commonest ways to infect a PC. But still it persists, driven by an apparently insatiable appetite among some Internet users for computer screensavers, wallpaper, ring tones and star pictures, at whatever risk to themselves.
“Cybercriminals employ numerous methods, yet one of the simplest but most effective way is to trick consumers into infecting themselves by capitalizing on Americans’ interest in celebrity gossip,” commented McAfee’s Jeff Green. “Tapping into current events, pop culture or commonly browsed sites is an easy way to achieve this.”
While it goes without saying that it’s always a wise move to make sure you’re protected, McAfee isn’t completely altruistic in letting us in on this valuable little morsel of information. Besides being the first name in malware protection you’ll think of after reading their own study, McAfee has a SiteAdvisor tool for search engines to weed out these fake sites and Yahoo! has recently started using it. It makes them a pretty penny and it makes us all a little more aware, so I’ll give it it’s due.
Speaking of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, so you don’t have to go searching, once again reps of the couple have had to make a statement refuting rumors they have split. Sparked by the nonexistence of photos of the happily unmarried parents of six since their twins were born two months ago, reports reached the couple’s representatives via the internet that Brangelina were no longer. Hard-hitting television news magazine Entertainment Tonight got the real scoop.
Despite the rumors swirling around the Internet that power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have split, ET gets to the bottom of the story.
Angelina’s rep tells ET the reports are “absolutely not true.”
[Entertainment Tonight via MSN Entertainment]
To put an exclamation point on the denial of trouble in paradise, Us Magazine says a source tells them that the whole family had a 10am breakfast together outside the French chateau they’re living in on Thursday morning. You can’t argue with breakfast, ladies and gentlemen.
Brad Pitt is shown at the Burn After Reading premiere on 8/27/08. Credit: Solarpix / PR Photos
Written by Ceilidh
Posted in Angelina Jolie, Beyonce, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, George Clooney, Heidi Montag, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey
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10 Responses to “Brad Pitt is dangerous, and still unavailable”
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BRAD IS AWESOME and always will be.
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Brad is dangerously hot… as is Angie and George.
Man, I would love a tape of THAT threesome.
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He IS hot, but not alot turns my stomach faster on a guy than hair crusties! Even if it IS product, I just can’t take my eyes off it and it grosses me out!!!! It’s all I can focus on in that first picture and my head is going to EXPLODE in a minute.
So, yeah, I guess Pitt IS dangerous!
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Oh Brad, I love you so!! sigh.
I love Angelina just as much, but not in the same way.
Good-Luck Angie. I’m keeping up with the Oscar-buzz for your role in the Changling. You’re WAY overdue for a Best Actress nod. Would love to see you and Brad on the Red Carpet. If you’re not nominated, I don’t watch OSCAR night. There!!!!
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What, no Rihanna malware? Give it time.
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Hey, you know how there were all of those stories about how Pitt & Aniston had dinner (they didn’t) and how now, magically there’s gossip about a Brange break-up?
Yeah, all of that Aniston famewhoring didn’t pay off. “Management” didn’t get a distributor at TIFF. They’re even talking “straight to video.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/awards_festivals/fest_reviews/article_display.jsp?JSESSIONID=7BFmLGPJQqtvhtnYqMtG9lV1hLhT0cmY7Q7rWy1v4yXqWZMQK6Mk!2135715977&&rid=11656
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Is nothing sacred anymore???
He is hot, but could use a little lip balm. -
dang… i really wish they would split
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Just a geek note here — McAfee is no longer the premier anti-virus it once was. It, like the free anti-spyware scanner Ad Aware (which I love dearly and have paid to use), have slipped considerably in their respective fields.
A client got a nasty piece of spyware on her computer, and she had McAfee installed. She had been a McAfee subscriber for a number of years, but McA couldn’t protect her from this. After 3 hours of chasing this thing, I decided to contact McA to see about using their removal service. They tech I spoke with told me they would charge $89.99 to remove the spyware. I asked him how she could have gotten infected in the first place, since she was running their anti-virus. He told me she must have ignored a McAfee warning and downloaded or opened an infected site.
Now, I know this lady. The likelihood that she would go to a porn site is about as great as the likelihood that my dogs will grow wings and fly. McAfee insisted it was her own fault, and if I wanted the spyware removed, it would cost $89.
I went to Spy No More, ran their free scanner, found the three registry keys and two files causing the problem, deleted them, and her computer is virus free.
Personally, I run AVG free edition, the free AdAware scanner, the free Spybot Search and Destroy, and visit PC Pitstop for a system scan regularly. I’m cheap AND geeky.
Sorry to be so long winded. I just hate to see people pay for something when there’s a better option out there for free.
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Dangit Brad, first your not hot, and then you mess up our computers. Get your un-hot ass together before that beautiful woman leaves you.
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