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Source: Sophos PLC
Full Text Report, Sophos Outs ‘Dirty Dozen’ Spam Producing Countries
“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.” According to the report, 56.74% of all spam messages originated in the U.S. Sophos, a software company that produces anti- virus and mail-filtering products, found that “although a large amount of spam is being sent from USA computers, much is being sent without the computer owner’s knowledge.” Spammers in other countries, notably Russia, are hijacking unprotected computers via Trojan horses and worms.
See Also: Full text of report (PDF, 128 KB; free registration required)

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