14 DAY TRIAL // Security company Sophos rolled out the report concerning the spam evolution in the third quarter of the year, revealing that the United States won the first position with 28.4 points. This means that "almost one in three of all the world's spam emails is being sent through a compromised US computer." South Korea comes in second place with a 5.2 percentage while China (including Hong Kong) is the third with 4.9 percent. The other countries are Russia, Brazil, France and Germany. The last places reveal that Romania with 2.3 percent and Mexico with 1.9 percent are the countries which also sent a considerable amount of spam messages.
"It seems as though a major American spammer is arrested every other week at the moment, but despite these high-profile lawbreakers being put away, the US continues to relay far more spam than any other nation on the planet," said Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos.
"This level of activity can't be attributed solely to the slick operations of a few cash-hungry criminals. The problem is there are thousands of spammers using many thousands of compromised zombie computers in the US. The only way we're going to reduce the problem is if US authorities invest a lot more in educating computer users of the dangers, while ensuring ISPs step up their monitoring efforts to identify these compromised machines as early as possible."
The spam messages have always been a problem for the Internet consumers because every time a new campaign is started, thousands or even millions of unsolicited emails invade everyone's inbox. Even if a lot of companies designed more or less powerful spam filters, the spammers manage to bypass them every time using latest generation techniques which seem to become more and more dangerous for our email communication activities.
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