The Internet might be an amazing place to get all the news about your favourite movie star, but as per a new study, if you're researching certain actors like Sunny Leone and Katrina Kaif, the chances of you clicking on a site with a virus are quite high.

A software security agency recently conducted a survey to gauge the odds of that actually happening. And according to their findings, those looking for information and pictures of Sunny Leone stand a 9.95% chance of picking up some neat viruses.

Going viral: "Around the world, content on sports and entertainment are two of the most searched as well as downloaded topics. India is no different, we are a Bollywood crazy country and cyber criminals use this passion for their criminal activities," says Lubna Markar, senior marketing manager India and South Asia, McAfee. She adds: "We want to know everything about our favourite stars. So it's not only information, but also pictures and videos that attract fans."

Second on their Most Dangerous Celebrity 2012 Survey is Katrina Kaif, who in last year's research was on the top spot. The only male actor on the list is Salman Khan on No. 8, after the likes of Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Vidya Balan. The study was carried out over a period of two-months on search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

"We scanned the pages with the name of the celeb and most widely used download keywords (like screensaver, photo, downloads, wallpaper, videos, ring tone and lyrics, hot pictures, YouTube, free downloads, free TV). We calculated the risk quotient based on the number of risky sites that each celeb had," says Markar.

Serious threat: While most Internet users don't take the threat of picking up viruses from these sites seriously, Markar insists it shouldn't be ignored. "Any malware infected site can use information for identity theft, monetary fraud, monitoring the user's activity and even for misuse of the computer as a device that perpetuates other cybercrimes," she says.