Antivirus vendor Sophos said that pegs Asia as the number one offender for spam. With China leading the pack but,
On a country-by-country basis, the U.S. still relays most spam, with 23.1 percent. China and Hong Kong come second with 21.9 percent of global spam, while South Korea is third at 9.8 percent.
Research firm ZDNet released a report on the state of affairs in the spam wars.
McAfee and Sophos agreed that spam was unlikely to disappear, and called for Internet service providers, businesses and home users to run antispam software. ISPs have traditionally been reluctant to block any kind of content, although most of the major players now have some form of antivirus protection for their customers.
Spam is an annoying fact of life. As long as there is money to be made for the spammers…they’ll find a way.
[tags]China, Spam, email[/tags]
