In a Thursday statement, antivirus firm McAfee said that Cameron Diaz is the “most dangerous” celebrity on the Web, in the sense that users searching for the celebrity online have a one-in-ten chance of coming up with a site which is either infected with or spreads malware.

Noting that Diaz has toppled last year’s riskiest search bait Jessica Biel to top the McAfee “Most Dangerous Celebrities” list this year, Dave Marcus, McAfee’s director of security research and communication, further added that the site of hitting a malware-infected site increases two-fold for users searching for “Cameron Diaz and screensavers.” 

According to McAfee, the most popular searches on the Internet – like the searches for movie stars, musicians, athletes and politicians – are often targeted by cybercriminals, who infect these sites with malicious software including programs such as spyware, adware, computer viruses, phishing scams, and email spam.

The other celebrities carrying the dubious honor of being the “most dangerous celebrities” online include – actress Julia Roberts in the second spot; last year’s topper Jessica Biel in the third place; and supermodel Gisele Buendchen in the fourth place. 

Meanwhile, the only two males figuring among the top ten on McAfee’s “most dangerous” celebrity-searches list include actors Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, in the fifth and eighth place respectively.

Moreover, the ‘safest’ of McAfee’s top 50 ‘unsafe celebrities’ were US President Barack Obama in the forty-ninth place, and politico Sarah Palin in the fiftieth spot!