Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts ‘most dangerous’ celebrities

Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Jessica Biel are the “most dangerous” celebrities to search for on the internet, a new survey about online dangers found.

Researchers found that Hollywood actresses and beautiful models were the ones who online criminals were most likely to use to lure unsuspecting web users to bogus sites.

They found more than six million unique, newly created pieces of malicious programming were created over the past year, the equivalent to around 60,000 pieces every day.

More than one in 10 internet searches about Diaz, 37, led to “risky websites”, which trick visitors into unwittingly downloading viruses that can seize control or computers.

A fifth of web results from searching the term “Cameron Diaz screensavers” were rigged with malicious code.
Searches related to Roberts, 42, who has been promoting her new film “Eat, Pray, Love,” resulted in tainted websites nine per cent of the time, but the risk leapt to 20 per cent when pictures or wallpapers were downloaded.

Biel, 28, who topped last year’s list, was the third most dangerous with her overall risk matching Roberts’, but users had less of a chance of being offered booby-trapped screensavers.

Victoria’s Secret lingerie models Gisele Buendchen, Adriana Lima, and Heidi Klum were among the Top Ten while tennis stars Maria Sharapova and Andy Roddick were 13th and 14th respectively.

The other “most-dangerous celebrities” to look for online include Jennifer Love Hewitt, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Heidi Klum, Penelope Cruz and Anna Paquin, the star of TV hit “True Blood”.