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McAfee: Emma Watson most 'dangerous' celebrity to search for online

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 13 Sep 2012 3:19 User comments (8)

McAfee: Emma Watson most 'dangerous' celebrity to search for online According to McAfee, actress Emma Watson is the most dangerous celebrity to search for online, if you hope to avoid malware.
Watson is best known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise.

The actress is followed by Jessica Biel, Eva Mendes and Selena Gomez. Biel is no stranger to the list, having topped it in 2009.

McAfee adds that when users search for their favorite stars, whether it be pictures or news, they are not as active in monitoring what they click.

For Emma Watson, for example, there is a one-in-eight chance of reaching a malicious site. Adding extra terms like "Emma Watson nude pictures" highly increases the chances, adds the anti-virus company.

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8 user comments

113.9.2012 15:42

I just don't get it. She's not even all that pretty. She was cute when she was a kid, that's about it.

213.9.2012 15:43

Originally posted by Ryoohki:
I just don't get it. She's not even all that pretty. She was cute when she was a kid, that's about it.
This here pretty much sums it up.

313.9.2012 16:14

Well she has many er.... virus's er.. up.. er within her..... =0-o=

413.9.2012 19:48

I could never understand the people that follow an ordinary person to such lengths, I mean, just because she is an actress, how does she titillate a person so much to hunt her down online ? as i have seen and met nicer women socialising every day and have seen more beautiful women just walking down the road. I don't see the attraction.

514.9.2012 06:25

That blew my mind. I could of swore that Susan Boyle would be topping the list.

614.9.2012 10:22

I wonder how much her publicist paid McAfee for her to have that title? If people weren't searching for pics of her before, they are now.

716.9.2012 12:29

Originally posted by GernBlan:
I wonder how much her publicist paid McAfee for her to have that title? If people weren't searching for pics of her before, they are now.
actually, publicists don't spend money. that's how the entertainment money hierarchy works. They rape it from their actor/musicians. Never the other way around.

Given the lack of consumer sales, I would venture that McAfee released the info freebies in hopes of boosting their own sales. It just so happens that the actress was caught in the cross fire.

Now having given out the info, idiots in droves will go searching, catch a virus & pay for their new removal tools and anti-virus because they don't know any better.

Some, will try to sue them because they planted the seed of evil in their brain & somehow forced them to go looking for Emma Watson virus'. Simply because that's what idiots do.

816.9.2012 16:35

Wonder why all the top ten are women? You're right she was cuter as a youngster. Not that she's all that grown up...

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