Anti Spam
Recently Sophos has completed the research of the most significant junk e-mail distributors, as the Link Spam Statistics found out, they are China and USA. However, European countries have united higher percentage of spam than the United States do with their 19.6 percent. The worldwide spam is hourly rising and in relation to 2006 it has icreased by 9 percent. The leaders of unsolicited e-mail list barring USA and China are: South Korea with 6.5 percent unsolicited 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.
One of the leading experts of Sophos declares that people don't make the most efficient use of computers distributing junk e-mail. But the easiest way go through it is using CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam filters which can determine unsolicited e-mail. She declared that the facility of any solitary state is not enough to overpass junk e-mail because it is a worldwide problem. Paul Ducklin, the head of high technology at Sophos Asia Pacific, annotates the widespread upgrowth of spam: ?In a matter of seconds we can find compromised machines circulate unsolicited e-mail on a lot of differing topics from stock speculation to diet medicine.”. He lets know beforehand that spammers are got ready to use systems illegally from any location in order to send unsolicited e-mail. ?The map indicats activity nearly all over the world.” he said, ?Africa may not yet be very well-wired, but it's sure wired sufficiently to be useful to the spam providers.”. Protectwebform realized its own survey in the field of unsolicited e-mail. Those results differs from Sopho's survey, but they are very necessary to notice. Analyzing the spam massages that had been entered in the specially created forms and then specialists managed to determine all of their features. As a result of research of these unsolicited e-mail messages and sender IP-addresses they determined the leaders of e-mail spam themes and spam distributors. Concerning states-junk e-mail-distributors, the leading position is taken by USA, having 38 percent of overall quantity of spam e-mail messages. Following, having a huge gap, 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 came upon the catalogue. Unsolicited e-mail-messages distribution into topics was completed by the following method. Derived unsolicited e-mail messages were divided by their themes to some folders so that later on the list of them was announced.
The leading position is held by ?Drug and Medications” topic with 24.7 percent, the second position - by ?Finance” with 16.6 percent. Other often occurring topics are ?Phones & Ringtones” - 6.8 percent, ?Sex” - 5.6 percent and ?Online casinos” - 4.2 percent.