Next time you search for about your favourite movie star on internet, beware! A new study says if you research certain actors such as Sunny Leone and Katrina Kaif, you might click on a site with a virus.
The study was recently conducted by a software security agency to find what's exactly happening. And according to their findings, those searching for Sunny Leone stand a 9.95 per cent chance of picking up some neat viruses.
Lubna Markar, senior marketing manager India and South Asia, McAfee said: "Second on McAfee’s Most Dangerous Celebrity 2012 Survey is Katrina Kaif, who in last year’s research had occupied the top spot. Incidentally, the one male actor on the entire list is Salman Khan, who ranks number 8, after the likes of Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and even Vidya Balan."
The study was carried out over a period of roughly two-months on search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing.These viruses are capable of causing identity theft, monetary fraud, monitoring the user’s activity and even for misuse of the computer as a device that perpetuates other cybercrimes.
The most dangerous celebs include Sunny Leone (9.95%), followed by Katrina Kaif (8.25%), Kareena Kapoor (6.67%), Priyanka Chopra (6.5%), Bipasha Basu (5.58%), Vidya Balan (5.33%), Deepika Padukone (4.92%), Salman Khan (4.83%), Aishwarya Rai (4.58%) and Poonam Pandey (4.25%).