smart computer use?

I guess I can’t really speak from experience… I just have never searched for Brad Pitt online. Don’t get me wrong, I guess he’s a decent actor and I have found him entertaining in certain movies: Fight Club, Ocean’s 11, etc.

But… according to Showbiz Tonight on CNN Headline News, Brad Pitt searches on the Internet have an 18% chance of delivering to you a nice virus, spyware or other harmful Internet gremlin.

HA!

Good thing I haven’t downloaded any stuff that claims to be about Brad Pitt on the Internet. If I was to ever now become a rabid Brad Pitt fan… I’d have to choose between search/download peril or not looking up anything about him on the Internet at all.

Let’s take a quick gander… for Brad Pitt

I just searched for Brad Pitt on Google. Yeah! Now I’m part of the online celebrity fan-club crowd. Or something.

All that I see are a bunch of fan sites, Wikipedia, and other legit looking sites… nice work Google! You have appeared to have protected me from the virtual wrath of Brad Pitt.

I would then venture to guess that this news story about 18% of all stuff on the Internet about Brad Pitt to be vicious must be referring to SPAM emails and file sharing networks. That has to be it.

Let’s take a look at my SPAM folder in Gmail. It contains 2387 messages right now from the last 30 days. There has to be something about Brad Pitt in there. And if I’m lucky it might have a sweet attachment that is representative of the Internet gremlin that I’m seeking.

What!

CableOne is once again having internet connection problems at my residence again (10th time tonight the connection has dropped, probably). Son of a ******.

Ok, CableOne is back

I see that I have 3 emails in my SPAM folder that have some keywords regarding Brad Pitt. Jackpot. I found no attachments though.

I guess I can’t find the 18% myself but it must be out there.