World Spam

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In 2007 Sophos published its monthly top of global Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 which finds out that China and the USA are the utmost wrongdoers when it comes to states distributing unsolicited e-mail. But, European countries have combined higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the United States do with their 19.6 percent. Here is the top points of the catalogue of spam providers: South Korea 6.5 percent spam, then Poland with 4.8 percent, Germany with 4.2 percent, Brazil 4.1 percent, France 3.3 percent, Russia 3.1 percent, Turkey 2.9 percent, UK with 2.8 percent, Italy with 2.8 percent and finally India with 2.5 percent, if you confront those showings with the results of 2006 year, you will see the worldwide 9 percent increase of spam.

One of the leading experts of Sophos claims that people don't use computers properly sending round unsolicited e-mail. But the easiest way go through it is using CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam procedures which can detect junk e-mail. She has acknowledged that countries need working together to attempt to overcome junk e-mail. Paul Ducklin, the chief of high technology at Sophos Asia Pacific, annotates the widespread upgrowth of unsolicited e-mail: ?Instantly we can find compromised machines send round unsolicited e-mail on a huge amount of various themes from shares tricks to diet drugs.”. He warns that unduly using of personal computers expands and can be put into practice from almost any location all over the world, even Africa, where internet systems are not very well spread, can be used as a platform of spam. Protectwebform produced its own research in the realm of unsolicited e-mail. These findings differs from Sopho's survey, but they are very interesting to observe. Analyzing the e-mail spam massages which had been entered into the specially registered mail boxes and then specialists managed to determine some of their characteristics. Using certain technologies connoisseurs defined senders IP-addresses, so, they managed to exactly report which state the spam e-mail message had come from. Regarding states-unsolicited e-mail-providers, the leading position is taken by USA, with 38 percent of general quantity of unsolicited e-mail messages. Next, having a huge lag, there is China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. The European countries are: just Spain - 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy - 1.7 percent came upon the list. Junk e-mail-messages circulation into themes was performed in the following way. They divided spam-phrases, distributing them into directories, and then they grouped derived section names, thus determining general topics.

The first place is occupied by ?Drug and Medications” topic with 24.7 percent, the second position - by ?Finance” with 16.6 percent. Another popular subjects are ?Phones & Ringtones” - 6.8 percent, ?Porn” - 5.6 percent and ?Gambling” - 4.2 percent.



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