Monday, January 12, 2009

Naked Beyonce gives viruses on LinkedIn


You may be tempted to become LinkedIn friends with Beyoncé and Victoria Beckham, but there may be a virus if you try.


The network LinkedIn allows you to get in touch with professional contacts that may help you to new jobs, or just to keep track of where your contacts are. But you can be tempted to try an online friendship with a musician superstjerne as Beyoncé or perhaps actor Salma Hayeck. But if they are naked in the profiles you are looking up on LinkedIn, you should think you before you offer yourself as the contact.


The security firm Trend Micro warns that there are a lot of fake LinkedIn profile, which has only the aim to get you enticed into the fold so they can send malware into your computer and, at worst, steal your personal information.


The fake profiles contains links that seemingly lead to naked pictures of celebrities are. But if you click on them, are secretly put programs into your computer that cyber criminals behind the fake profiles can then use to steal information from your computer.

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