India has overtaken the United States as the world’s supreme spewer of spam. Indian computers distribute a sixth of the roughly 100 billion junk emails sent daily, according to an October report by the online security firm Sophos. It attributes India’s rise to a fast-growing population of novice users who unwittingly download viruses that turn computers into zombie spam distributors. Security-awareness campaigns and tighter oversight by Internet service providers helped the U.S. fall to third.
SHARE OF WORLD'S SPAM
| Country |
2012 |
2011
|
1. India
|
16.1% |
8.8% |
| 2. Italy |
9.4% |
1.9% |
| 3. USA |
6.5% |
11.3% |
| 4. Saudi Arabia |
5.1% |
N/A |