McAfee Names Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo the Severest Threat Online this 2014

According to McAfee the security company, Cristiano Ronaldo the famous footballer from Portugal is the greatest cyber-crime peril as crooks seek capitalizing on searches with keywords having his name, published itproportal.com in news on June 5, 2014.

One particular research by McAfee unfolded online searches associated with Ronaldo's name as quite possibly returning hits which divert Web-surfers onto harmful sites delivering trojans or other malware onto the users' PCs.

McAfee published a list named "The Red Card Club" that contains the names of football icons which are likely to disseminate malicious software while it's similar to a Who's Who about players who're going to play the FIFA World Cup tournament of 2014 at Brazil that is about to start on 12th June, 2014.

As per McAfee's study, football admirers bear the biggest danger while surfing websites presenting videos and screensaver downloads depicting the players' remarkable dexterities. An online search for Cristiano Ronaldo related material results in an over 3.7% possibility of confronting one site, which contains adware, spyware, viruses, phishing, spam along with more malware.

McAfee noted that like usual with other social hypes, Internet crooks were taking advantage of netizens' enthusiasm for the globally best game towards enticing them onto URLs harboring malicious code having the ability to taint an end-user's computer while grabbing his passwords along with other personal information. Infosecurity-magazine.com published this dated June 5, 2014.

And so far as danger rates are concerned, close to Ronaldo is Lionel Messi of Argentina (3.72%), Iker Cassillas of Spain (3.34%), Neymar of Brazil (3.14%) and Karim Ziani of Algeria (3%).

EMEA CTO Raj Samani for McAfee stated that cyber-crooks couldn't overlook the temptation of abusing 'fever-pitch' exhilaration surrounding the current summer's classic stars within Brazil. However, it bore a threat whereby the expectation would cause fans to take down matter online, they mustn't, for gaining their football thrill, he lamented. Infosecurity-magazime.com published this dated June 5, 2014.

McAfee urged browsing only renowned or authorized news websites, nevertheless, cautioned that those weren't essentially free from malware either. Consequently, it would be good to utilize secured search tools, the security firm suggested.

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