There has been numorous websites expoiting Michael Jackon’s death. Scammers are setting up Phishing sites posing as “charity sites” in the name of Michael Jackson, asking for personal information only to scam you later on.
Chain mails are also being sent out via email in hopes that you will reply. Once you reply you can be guaranteed a spot on the spammer’s mailing list. Many Michael Jackson websites and blogs are also being targeted in effort to exploit viruses. These websites are processing other scripts in the background installing potentially harmful software, Spyware and Trojans.

“A legitimate Web site … is opened by the default browser in order to distract the user by presenting a news article for them to read,” researchers at Websense Security Labs explain. “In the background, three further information-stealing components are downloaded and installed.”

If you use FireFox you can use the NoScript plugin and with Internet Explorer you can disable pop-ups and Javascript as well.