Barack Obama is more dangerous than Viagra

Posted By Evgeny Morozov Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 12:07 PM Share

I am not joking: this is the conclusion of a recent report [PDF] on the Web's most dangerous search terms from McAfee, a computer security firm. Those searching for Obama are four times more likely to get infected with a virus than those searching for viagra (6.2% vs 1.6% risk)!

The report is full of such factoids. Did you know, for example, that by searching for "IRS stimulus checks" you are, on average, ten times more likely to get a virus than if you search for "financial crisis"?

Oh yes, and yet another blow to the Labour Party: Birtain's fifth most dangerous search term is the name of the country's chancellor of the exchequer -- "Alistair Darling" (Gordon Brown comes eighth on the list).