So yet another reason to dislike americans. [Er, we like Americans. At the INQ we like every country in the world. We even Antarcticans from the planet Zabubbletrubble. Ed.]

It's between 1 in 3 or 4, not 5 or 20. Other Continents mentioned contain many countries and nations, USA is "One Nation .....".

The table shows 28% of spam coming from the US, while earlier in the article it says it's 1 in 20. 

28% is closer to 1 in 5. I can't do the exact maths :)

Now what to do about it? Support systems like Blue Frog more? Force vendors to be more responsible in designing their products? Automatically start kicking bots off the net?

I'm sorry so many users are clueless, but the last one seems to be the best option. The only other real choice is a Blue Frog style approach to make it less profitable or a liability to spam.


One should not necessarily believe what one sees - especially on the internet and especially when it concerns statistics.

I wonder what the numbers would be if Sophos (after learning simple math - good catch Kip)factored into the statistics the number of computers in each of those countries.

Also, I wonder what "authorities" are responsible for teaching computers users the "dangers"? The government? The schools? The police? LOL - ignorant statment, if you ask me.

In the US when someone uses a plain old telephone to spam in a big way, they get fined, roasted in front of the press, and sent on their way. But, the Feds don't seem to care about what happens online as it's not hurting the well heeled interests. Er... lobbyists. And while we are on the topic, how much money are Microsoft and Symantec making off of protecting us from spam?

If the US government took 1% of the resources it put into the DMCA and applied it to spam control, we'd see a lot less spam coming from the US.

ScottJ