Recently Sophos has finished the analysis of the most considerable unsolicited e-mail distributors, as the Link Spam Statistics found out, they are China and USA. It is easy to understand that the survey hasn't been done only to rebuke the US for unsolicited e-mail distribution, European countries in total have higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the US do. The worldwide junk e-mail is now rising and in respect of 2006 it has gone up by 9 percent. The leaders of spam roll barring USA and China are: South Korea with 6.5 percent junk 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 claims that people don't use computers properly circulating unsolicited e-mail. But the easiest way go through it is using CAPTCHA test and Anti Spam filters which can detect unsolicited e-mail. She has admitted that states should work in conjunction to attempt to combat unsolicited e-mail. Paul Ducklin, the chief of technology at Sophos Asia Pacific, comments on the widespread rise of unsolicited e-mail: ?Instantly we can see compromised computers send round spam on many different topics from stock speculation to diet drugs.?. The unsolicited e-mail business doesn't require a lot of investment to start it, so illicit junk e-mail organizations may be established in any location and it's been occurring hourly. Not only in the countries with dense population and good level of technologies development like Africa. Protectwebform fulfilled its own research in the realm of e-mail spam. Those results differs from Sopho's research, but they are very necessary to notice. Analyzing the unsolicited e-mail massages which had been entered in the specially created mail boxes and then experts managed to define all of their characteristics. Using certain technologies specialists defined senders IP-addresses, so, they managed to exactly declare which country the unsolicited e-mail message had come from. Regarding countries-junk e-mail-providers, the leading position is held by USA, having 38 percent of overall quantity of junk e-mail messages. Following, with a huge gap, there is 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 got into the top. Spam e-mail-messages promotion into themes was accomplished by the following method. The specialists classified unsolicited e-mail-phrases, distributing them into folders, and then they classified obtained folder names, thus defigning most often found topics.

As for the most popular unsolicited e-mail-message topics, the leading position is held by ?Drugs and Medications? which covers 24.7 percent overall junk e-mail-topics; the silver medalist is ?Finance? with 16.6 percent. Those are the definitive top leaders . Another popular topics are ?Mobile Phones & Ringtones? ? 6.8 percent, ?Porn? ? 5.6 percent and ?Gambling Institutions? ? 4.2 percent.