India is now the top
spam-spewing nation on the planet overtaking America, according to a
report of the security firm Sophos which ranks nations by the amount of
junk mail routed through computers in each country.
The report said that some ten per cent of all junk mail sent across the
web came from or passed through computers in India with America in the
second place at 8.3 per cent and South Korea third at 5.7 per cent.
It attributed India’s dramatic rise up the ``spam chart’’ partly to the inexperience of many of first-time internet users. The report reckoned that about 80 per cent of all junk email was routed
through PCs hijacked by hi-tech criminals who used computer viruses to
seize control of the machines. Once a computer was under their control
they used them to send out mail on their behalf, typically relaying it
from another nation.
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