Sad, but true. While we are not entirely suprised to see this, we are curious as to why the U.S. does not also have the highest spam receival rate (last time we checked, we were pretty sure it was Israel with each person having an average of 15% spam in their mail every day). So what does this mean for American’s? Read below.

The US is responsible for a fifth of the world’s spam, according to security firm Sophos.

Based on their figures for Q3 2006, the US was responsible for a whopping 21.6 percent of relayed spam, making it the worst country on the planet for originating spam.

In second place in Sophos’ list o’shame comes China with 13.4 percent, followed by France (6.3 percent), South Korea (6.3 percent) and Spain (5.8 percent).Us Brits can give ourselves a little pat on the back, as we’ve managed to reduce our spam output enough to drop out of the top ten, into 13th position.

Stratio is a pain in the arsio
Sophos reckons that the reason for the boost in the US’s spamming activities could be down to the emergence of over 300 strains of the Stratio worm.[more]

Tags: Computer Protection