nsane.forums Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 More than one in 10 of every spam e-mail sent in the world comes from India. More broadly, every other spam e-mail sent in the world comes from Asia.What country is responsible for the majority of the spam sent in the world? You can excuse the usual culprits that have led the pack in years before like Canada, China, Brazil, South Korea, and the U.S. There's a new kid on the block, and she's pretty big: India. In fact, if you get spam (and who doesn't?), there's a more than one in 10 chance that it was relayed from an Indian computer.The latest data comes from Sophos, which regularly releases a Dirty Dozen spam report for every quarter. This one is for Q1 2012:India - 11.4 percentItaly - 7.0 percentSouth Korea - 6.7 percentU.S. - 6.2 percentVietnam - 5.8 percentBrazil- 4.4 percentPakistan - 3.7 percentChina - 3.2 percentFrance - 3.1 percentRussia - 2.9 percentPoland - 2.7 percentTaiwan - 2.6 percentOther - 40.3 percentIndia actually topped the last Dirty Dozen report as well, when it overtook the U.S. as the world's top spam-relaying country in Q4 2011. At the time, India contributed 9.3 percent of all spam sent worldwide, while the U.S. was at 8.3 percent.Now India has solidified its position as the biggest global contributor to the junk e-mail problem. It's at 11.4 percent while all the remaining countries are in the single digits.India is contributing to the growing percentage of spam that comes from its continent. The latest breakdown is as follows: Asia (49.7 percent), Europe (26.4 percent), South America (11.2 percent), North America (8.6 percent), Africa (3.6 percent), and Other/Unclassified (0.5 percent).Most of the spammers probably don't promote Asian goods nor do they reside in Asia. Instead, they are simply relaying their messages through compromised Asian zombie computers part of a botnet."The chief driver for Asia's dominance in the spam charts is the sheer number of compromised computers in the continent," a Sophos spokesperson said in a statement. "Malicious hackers hijack poorly-protected computers, and command them - without their owners realising - to send out unwanted money-making messages and malicious links. Everyone has a responsibility to ensure that their PC or Mac is properly defended against such attacks. If they take no care over their computers they're simply adding to the world’s spam problem. The latest 'Dirty Dozen' stats suggest that as more first-time internet users get online in growing economies they are not taking appropriate measures to block the malware infections that turn their PCs into spam-spewing zombies. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 24, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 24, 2012 I'm not butthurt or something. But:1. Who pays them? Non-asian companies. This isn't outsourcing, but making business from poor people.2. Lot of this has do to with the AVs Indians use. Engineers (meh, don't know shit about things, only some are good) here keep installing Indian AVs made for "Indian viruses", a bs term set by security companies. There's no India targeted virus or malware, atleast none of them are getting stopped by the "Indian AVs". So the problem? 80% of so called Indian AVs are fake rip-off and the rest 20% are inefficient to even be considered as AVs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Engineers ... don't know shit about things, ...When Narayan Murthy said that most Indian Engineers are unemployable, there was such a hue and cry although we all know the truth pretty well. :nono:It got even worse when Chetan Bhagat came out and in his customary flamboyant fashion said that even the IIT's (that holy cow of Indian Tech education) are lacking in quality with every passing year maybe due to a lack of quality teachers. He in the end to 'rectify' his statement which amounted to an apology IMO. :(When are we gonna learn to take a long hard look at ourselves and admit when we are wrong rather than continuing with our parochial 'living-in-perpetual-denial mode? :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajesh Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 @calguyhunk, I completely agree with you (And Narayana MNurthy). And what's worse is that i realize that we indians are teh No.1 Morons. (I used to think Americans were).A whole lot of people i know with Computer (And Internet) access in india do forward junk mails a lot. Not the "Paid for Spamming" though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 A whole lot of people i know with Computer (And Internet) access in india do forward junk mails a lot. Not the "Paid for Spamming" though.. Yeah, chain mails lulz - "If you don't send this to 20 people within 24 hours, bad things are gonna happen to you" :wtf: :rant: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesiPirate Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 This thread was about spam email, I do know why the two posts above changed the topic like politicians. I totally agree with DKT27 that the spam emails are generated here but spammers are recruited (lured) by foreign people to sell foreign products like viagra, herbal products, money making shits,etc...Anyways I do not agree with Narayan murthy, may be he wants every engineer to be Thomas Edison or Henry Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 24, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 24, 2012 I don't remember Narayan murthy incidence, have forgotten about it. Nevertheless, the IT class and the general computer users needs to step it up in technology and others should not fall for fast money.I, who is like 99% self learned in computers, regularly need to educate all the computer engineers I meet, which is quite silly.Back to the topic, not targeting anyone, but my experience tells me there are more or equal Chinese and Pakistani spammers out there. I've seen them as equally as Indian spammers. So there's my point again, misusing people's poverty for own benefit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Back to the topic, not targeting anyone, but my experience tells me there are more or equal Chinese and Pakistani spammers out there. I've seen them as equally as Indian spammers. So there's my point again, misusing people's poverty for own benefit.The whole point 'bout Indian spam, Chinese spam etc. is just a cold statistic. Nobody hates on a country for being the spam capital. Those things are equally annoying irrespective of their origins. ;) Wherever there are a lot of people using computers, like India, China, USA (aggregate numbers - not in percentage terms), there will be spammers, hackers and the like. Doesn't really mean anything. What's really surprising are the rankings of countries like Italy, South Korea etc. :) And in any case, most of them originate from compromised zombie computers anyways as the original zdnet article pointed out. So..... :dunno: I think the self proclaimed pirate dude needs to take a chill pill lulz :hehe: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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