Spreading out every 3 seconds a spam site

Latest research data from security firm Sophos shows that 92.3% of emails sent around the world in the first 3 months of 2008 are spam. Also during this time, there are 23,300 spam-related websites, every day, every 3 seconds, there will be a spam site every 3 seconds.

Sophos's study also noted a remarkable phenomenon: Turkey has for the first time in the Top 3 most spam-dispersed countries in the world, due to "positive contributions" to the problem. spam.

The zombie computer network (ie, the user's computer has lost control of the hacker) in Turkey is now responsible for forwarding up to 5.9% of the world's spam.

This figure is nearly 1.5 times higher than the 3.8% rate in the fourth quarter of 2007.

The US and Russia continue to be the top two "superpowers" of spam, however, compared to the "contribution level" of the last 3 months of 2007, the proportion of spam has decreased more or less. However, the amount of spam sent from Russian zombie computers has more than doubled in the past year.

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Source: VNunet If the first quarter of 2007, Russia ranked 10th in the list of 3% of transitional spam, Russia has reached the second position with 7.4% so far. " , Sophos said.

Replace Russia in the 10th position with the UK with 3.4% of the total global spam. In the fourth quarter of 2007, the UK still ranked 12th with 2.5% of spam.

" The arrival of Turkey is an unexpected disturbance ," Sophos said. " But that does not mean that other countries have done a good job of blocking spam ."

" In fact, this problem is still very serious and only if we neglect, the spammer will immediately rebel with unimaginable intensity ". Although the US is still a spam-dispersing country with a number of champions, the gap between them and other countries has been narrowed.

" It is possible that users are better aware of safe surfing and are more concerned with computer security ," commented Sophos.