McAfee Finds Lots Of World Cup Related Spyware

As the world cup season draws to an end, many of us may have downloaded ample amounts of World Cup merchandise from the internet to show our support for our home nation. Some of us may've downloded themes for our computer which probably consisted a few wallpapers or even screensavers. Nothing wrong with that? Security firm McAffee® says differently.

It google searched, "world cup screensaver" followed by 736 popular footballers and recorded for each player how many dangerous sites came up when you typed that player's name in. Then they averaged each football team's results and ranked the countries' dangerousness.



The company found however much more dangerous results for those who search for "screensavers" followed by a player's name. The first-page results for Lama from Angola gave a 45.5% chance of landing on a risky site. David Beckham only has a 30.0% chance.

Overall, the company discovered that by searching any players' name followed by "screensaver" leaves you with a 10.43% chance of stumbling upon a risky site.

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