USA and China Tops Dirty Dozen List of Spammers

The US and China are competing for leadership as the top spam relaying countries. This is a leadership which I am sure US wouldn’t mind relinquising and it is improving.

Security vendor Sophos has revealed in latest report for Q1 2006that while the United States has continued to make good progress in its efforts to reduce spam-relaying statistics, there is still more spam sent from US computers than any other nation. However as a continent, North America is now close to being overtaken by Europe, with both lying well behind Asia in terms of spam relayed.

Two years ago, the US accounted for over half of all spam sent to the world - now it is less than a quarter.

Europe is in danger of overtaking North America as the second worst spam-relaying part of the world with the new entry of UK in the dirty dozen at 10^th position.

via ITWire