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It was very interesting while i was reading this article and I was really amazed by the results in the list.Hope you will find that news quite informative.So here they are:
Sophos outs 'dirty dozen' spam producing countries

Anti-spam specialist maps the spam world
Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against spam and viruses, has published a report into the countries from which spam messages originate. Researchers scanned all spam messages received over two days last week and have revealed a 'dirty dozen' of offending countries with the United States topping the chart.

The 'dirty dozen' are as follows:
United States 56.74%
Canada 6.80%
China (& Hong Kong) 6.24%
South Korea 5.77%
Netherlands 2.13%
Brazil 2.00%
Germany 1.83%
France 1.50%
United Kingdom 1.31%
Australia 1.21%
Mexico 1.19%
Spain 1.05%
Others 12.23%

Sophos's findings are based upon an analysis of hundreds of thousands of emails examined by Sophos spam researchers using honeypots and other measuring systems around the world.

"The United States is far and away the worst offender, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the world's spam. Even though European countries are responsible for less spam, they are still generating millions of junk emails a day," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "Spam is a global problem, and countries worldwide are starting to take the issue more seriously. However, legislation in the UK won't protect users from spam coming from North America or China."

Sophos research has revealed that although a large amount of spam is being sent from USA computers, much is being sent without the computer owner's knowledge.

"Our intelligence suggests that a large amount of spam originates in Russia, even though it appears at only number 28 in the chart. Hackers appear to be breaking into computers in other countries and sending out spam via 'infected' PCs," continued Cluley. "Some Trojan horses and worms allow spammers to take over third-party computers belonging to innocent parties, and use them for sending spam. More than 30 percent of the world's spam is sent from these compromised computers, underlining the need for a co-ordinated approach to spam and viruses."

Sophos advises home users, particularly those with broadband connections to the internet, to ensure their computers are not unwittingly being used by spammers.

Announcer: Sophos.com

The fact that spam is effective at all never ceases to amaze me. Every spam messgae I get is totally incomprehensible. How do people fall for it?

"C|_1K H3RE 4 A B1GGER P3|\|15!!!1"

Yeah, I can't count how many times that subject has forced me to buy their product.

I hate the spamers.
It is very troublesome to have to erase 10 emails a day, and it every day

grrr

*Anto sets mode +b *!*@spammers.*

I agree with smedrick, people must just click any link they see because most of the spam I get isn't in any language I can understand.

Instead of trying to stop the spammers, maybe we should try and stop the people who click on this kind of thing, or heaven forbid call a phone number it mentions.

Maybe add a dialogue box when a link is clicked in email prorgams that says "Are you sure you're not helping a spammer or having your idenitity stolen?".

Spammers really don't affect me. Since My email provider has spam features, where it sends all the spamish messages into a seperate place and not the main inbox. So i never had the hardship of deleting spam emails everyday.

I suggest that you try to use the more up to date email providers which have spam protection such as Gmail, or yahoo. Gmail has been great to me, plus you never have to delete any of the email you get. So you can search for old emails if need be through your archive. If you want a invite to Gmail, just PM your email and i'll send you one.

Yep, Gmail's spam filter is great. I have over 300 messages in my spam folder. I can't even imagine what it would look like if they all were in the inbox...

i wonder if we will get rid of spam in the near future... it doenst look too bright atm. what we need is some authentication system, like pgp but simple enough for grandmum to use.

but also we need to make ppl stop buying things from spam. lets not forget thats the main reason we have so much spam -- because it works.

porn and free long distance is my call

I can see that spam is a major problem, but honestly, it doesn't bother me at all. I think it's hilarious.

"If your partner is addicted to massive cocks, you have nothing else left to do but order Penis Enlarge Patch!!!"

I love the way it says "you have nothing else left to do" like it's a life threatening situation.

I agree spamming is a nuisance , but spammers dont really bother me , because I believe that witha a litle bit of sesnsibility - like not giving out your email id at every flashy site, mite drastically reduce spam levels! I am sure most people have heard abouth all this before, but i doubt very few people actully practice it! So I guess its upto you ultimately wheteher you get SPAM or NOT!

Or just have multiple accounts for friends and online stuff

there ia an awfull lot of good spam filters around. i never get spam and im with http://www.net-work.net/ also gmail stops an awfull lot and thats free, though i have had a few emails blocked on gmail when they wernt spam.
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But spam will never be stoped it will always find a way to annoy you

Yupee Romania isn't on the list :p But anyway, spam sucks badly... I have Gmail too and it's great for anti-spam!

But now, spam doesn't come from nowhere... you do 65% of the job you know by telling your email too all sorts of sites...