When you open your inbox and check out your spam box, then one of ten spam messages coming from India...For this you can thanks India. SophosLabs’s recently revile a “dirty dozen” report which detailed World’s most and top spam-relaying countries and India has on topped position in the chart.
Sophos experts report means that computers in India passing 16.1% of the spam and this will make India at top of the spam-relaying countries chart.
Top 12 spam-relaying countries in the world for July to September 2012
1 India 16.1%
2 Italy 9.4%
3 USA 6.5%
4 Saudi Arabia 5.1%
5 Brazil 4.0%
6 Turkey 3.8%
7 France 3.7%
8 South Korea 3.6%
9 Vietnam 3.4%
10 China 3.1%
11 Germany 2.7%
12 United Kingdom 2.1%
And others 36.5%
India is a world’s third most connected country after China and USA and total 5.3% internet users. India’s growing role as a spam-relayer not to points country’s computers as a spam generator or sender, but also likely to targeted themselves of other online threats like malwares, junky emails.
India has topped in the list and lay down USA from No.1 as it reported top spam-relayer in SophosLab’s April report, which accounted 9.3% of total world’s relayed spam.
Top Spam-relayed Continents for July to September 2012
1. Asia 48.7%
2. Europe 28.2%
3. South America 10.2%
4. North America 9.5%
5. Africa 2.9%
And others 0.5%
You can stay down the country from spam-relayed list by keeping your software up to date and take care what you click on while surfing on internet and what software you installed on you computer!