Anti Spam
February 1st, 2008The regular Link Spam Statistics survey has shown that China and USA have a tainted reputation of holding the leading positions in the register of spammers. It is not difficult to understand that the inspection hasn't been done just to censure the US for unsolicited e-mail distribution, European countries in total have higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the US do. The worldwide unsolicited e-mail is constantly rising and in respect of 2006 it has rised by 9 percent. The leaders of unsolicited e-mail catalogue excepting USA and China are: South Korea with 6.5 percent junk e-mail, then Poland with 4.8 percent, Germany with 4.2 percent, Brazil 4.1 percent, France 3.3 percent, Russia 3.1 percent, Turkey 2.9 percent, UK with 2.8 percent, Italy with 2.8 percent and India with 2.5 percent.
According to Carole Theriault, senior protection consultant of Sophos, people stydied the mechanisms to circulate junk e-mail worldwide and now there are many that sorts of machines, but using CAPTCHA test and Anti Spam methods addressee can avoid receiving the unsolicited e-mail. She also that that to combat the junk e-mail states have to be coherent. Paul Ducklin, the head of high technology at Sophos Asia Pacific, annotates the widespread development of spam: ?Instantly we can see compromised systems circulate unsolicited e-mail on a dozen various topics from shares tricks to diet remedy.”. He lets know beforehand that spam distributors are got ready to use systems unduly from any location in order to send unsolicited e-mail. ?The map shows activity nearly all over the world.” he said, ?Africa can not yet be very equipped, but it's certainly wired enough to be suitable for the spam providers.”. Protectwebform realized its own survey in the realm of junk e-mail. Those findings differs from Sopho's survey, but they are very necessary to know. During many months Protectwebform examined spam messages, which were entered in e-mail boxes, specially created by them. In a result of examination of these junk e-mail messages and sender IP-addresses you can see the leaders of e-mail spam themes and spam providers. Regarding countries-unsolicited e-mail-providers, the leading position is taken by USA, with 38 percent of overall amount of spam e-mail messages. Next, with a huge lag, comes China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. From European countries just Spain - 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy - 1.7 percent fallen into the top. Unsolicited e-mail-messages circulation into themes was accomplished in the following way. The specialists divided junk e-mail-phrases, distributing them between directories, and then they classified gained directory names, thus determining most common topics.
The first place is occupied by ?Drug and Medications” topic with 24.7 percent, the second - by ?Finance” with 16.6 percent. Other popular themes are ?Phones & Ringtones” - 6.8 percent, ?Adult” - 5.6 percent and ?Gambling Institutions” - 4.2 percent.
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