14 DAY TRIAL // True to the old school slogan of "you live and you learn," my lesson today is that despite the technological advancements, big nations are not those with the highest malware ratio per capita. Neither are they the ones with the highest average salary, but that's business talk and I'm not really big on that.
Can you say 'Pitcairn'? I know it's not a difficult word to mouth, but I find it stunning to find out that these islands have come all the way to the top of the Sophos statistics for the highest ratio of unsolicited email compared to the overall population. It's natural, however, that something like this happened, after all, a lower population means the spam is bearing down heavier per capita. We all know that a good spammer doesn't grin in his cave, thinking that his work for that day is done after sending out a couple of emails. That's just not the way spam works.
The next offenders on the list are Niue and Tokelau, also islands in the South Pacific, and they're followed by the Caribbean island of Anguilla and the Faroe Islands. I guess this is just like destiny and bad news, you see them coming a mile away, but you're always surprised when they catch up with you.
"Most of the countries in this chart have very small populations compared to the usual offenders, but their totals are sky-high when it comes to spam emitted on a per-person basis," Carole Theriault, a senior security consultant at the security firm said. "Just because your PC is located on a remote island in the South Pacific, doesn't mean it's not contributing to the global spam problem. All computer users, wherever they are in the world, need to wake up to the threats and ensure their PCs are properly protected," she added.