Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register)



 
Reply to this topicStart new topic
> Mcafee Finds Lots Of World Cup Related Spyware, "lama world cup screensaver" brings up 45.5% risky results
electriic ink
post Jul 8 2006, 02:06 PM
Post #1


Incest is a game the whole family can play.
Group Icon

Group: [MODERATOR]
Posts: 1,234
Joined: 11-February 05
From: Heaven
Member No.: 3,709
myCENT:15.88



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 McAffeeŽ 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.

IPB Image


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.

More On This Story | More On The World Cup
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post

Reply to this topicStart new topic

Collapse

> Similar Topics

Topics Topics
  1. Microsoft Plans Free Anti-Spyware Program(12)
  2. Longhorn Is Spyware !(57)
  3. Terminate Spyware On Your On(3)
  4. Got Virus Or Other Annoying Spyware(25)
  5. Real-time Spyware Protection(6)
  6. Rootkits, And How To Detect Them(1)
  7. Your Help Is Needed(6)
  8. Spyware On Surveys(0)
  9. Spyware / Virus Removal Help Needed(10)
  10. Virus-spyware Protection An Detection(3)
  11. Trojan /spyware Protection---best---low Resource Util.(5)
  12. Apache Conflicting With Mcafee 8.0i Enterprise(2)
  13. Mcafee Lets Users Download Rootkit Program For Free(2)
  14. Sick Of Being Infected By Viruses, Spyware, Malware, Etc.?(4)


 



- Lo-Fi Version Time is now: 22nd November 2008 - 11:23 PM