Technology and Gadget Blog » Spam Attacks http://j-pro.com Technology, Gadget, Internet Media Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:53:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 US become The Biggest Contributor of Spam http://j-pro.com/us-become-the-biggest-contributor-of-spam/ http://j-pro.com/us-become-the-biggest-contributor-of-spam/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:20:15 +0000 Gadget Technology http://j-pro.com/?p=24 United States appeared to be breeding places for gathering spammers alias spreader spam (junk email). According to the observation Symantec Messaging & Web Security, most of the spam that comes from this big country. In Symantec’s monthly report, in October 2008 the U.S. penetration of spam from reaching 29 percent of all spam circulating on the internet. That number as well as placing the U.S. as a country which is the largest source of spam in the world.

In the second place position by Turkey. Countries that are in the border region is Europe and Asia are said by Symantec has at least as much as 8 percent in the spread of spam.

Russia further under the U.S. and Turkey. However, the ‘market’ of the Russian spam is not much different with Turkey, the state bears the red is 7 percent.

Level of spam in the month of October 2008 alone reached 76.4 percent of all messages sent. This shows the level of spam increased year on year (YoY) nearly 6 percent rather than October 2007. However, a decrease compared to August 2008 reached 80 percent.

Following 10 countries the largest contributor spam according to Symantec research, as I read from DetikInet :
1. United States – 29%
2. Turkey – 8%
3. Russia – 7%
4. China – 4%
5. India – 4%
6. South Korea – 4%
7. English – 3%
8. Brazil – 3%
9. Germany – 2%
10. Thailand – 2%

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