Spam relay topped the U.S. Countries in Q2 2010
IT Company “Sophos has published its latest report on the main twelve countries relaying spam for the second quarter 2010 (Q2 2010). According to the report, the U.S. continues to dominate as spam infected with 15th 2% of all spam messages – an increase by 13. 1% in Q1-2010. The report states that the UK rose to fourth in the league table of pollution of spam in Q2 2010 from ninth in Q1-2010. The UK has made spam hall of shame before, but now sent out in April. 6% of global spam. In addition, the above spam relaying countries were India (7th 7%), Brazil (5th 5%) and Korea (4th 2%) in positions second, third and fifth respectively. France , Germany and Italy was also found in the report of a sixth, seventh, eighth with four seats. 1%, fourth and 0% 3rd 5% of total spam, respectively. Some other countries claiming the list was Russia (2. 8%), Vietnam (2nd 7%), Poland (second 5%) and Romania (second 3%) in the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth positions respectively. The new report shows that the EU emerged as a leader on the continent to move the junk mail that replaces Asia. In addition, seized Sophos’s global network of spam traps 35% of the total spam from European systems. In this sense, Europe was well ahead in Asia and North America during Q2-2010. Asian countries contributed about 30 9. % of total spam. On the other hand, distributed North 18th 9% of total spam. South America (11th 5%) and Africa (2nd 5%) were the other two continents spam messages released in Q2-2010. According to Sophos Spam has become extremely harmful. It has gone beyond advertising and unwanted products began to spread malicious links to Web sites and infect computers with malware. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, says that spam would be a big problem if it generates profits for hackers. For hackers, i is the purely commercial sense to continue, although a small percentage of users click on links, according to news THINQ July 14, 2010.
