US still number one spam nation

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Hi malware fighters,

Keep those spam filters running, the USA is still the number one spamming nation on earth, want to see the top 12:
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,39278035,00.htm

Asia is catching up, which is a bad sign. My mailwasher is making overtime.

We hate spam, don’t we folks?

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Interesting, i thought it was china…

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Hi RejZoR,

Because there is gigantic money involved. Why spam goes on and on, you can read here:
http://scottmace.typepad.com/service_provider_blog/2006/01/spam_goes_on_an.html

Siteadvisor is a way to avoid spam, but we have to wait until the time the larger part of the web is mapped. Download this add-on here: http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ff.html (firefox, flock or IE); works on Google search results page Yahoo search results page. and MSN search results page.

Good compact anti-spam guide:
http://www.avoidspam.co.uk/articles/the-compact-anti-spam-guide.php

Intruction for web access rule implementation, instructive demo:
http://www.vet.k-state.edu/depts/cats/flash/webspam/index.htm

polonus

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Don’t have problems with spam (GMail), but i thought china has the biggest share of spammers. It’s then most probably not far behind US…

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Hmmm… I read it was China now.

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Hi Negeltu,

It is just about what sources, you quote. The ranking I referred to was Sophos’s, but here you can read to the contrary this:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/172300875

So, who is spamming who there?

polonus

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I guess I just don’t get so worked up about spam. I have more important things in life to cope with than to allow my body to go through a stress response and release body-damaging chemicals over emails. I use Mozilla Thunderbird and it’s spam filter catches almost every piece of spam email that I get. That includes mail from hotmail, yahoo and my email through my hosting provider. It is rare that a piece of spam enter my inbox that doesn’t go straight to my junk folder. Whereas if I were to sign on to hotmail my inbox would be full of spam mail even though my junk filter is set there. I really recommend people use Thunderbird as their email client. If you have hotmail or other web based email Thunderbird has web mail plugin that works wonderfully.