India has 1 in 30.5 Emails Infected
Techtree News Staff, Feb 18, 2008 1721 hrs IST
Analyzing geographical trends across the globe this January, MessageLabs reported that India has 1 in every 30.5 emails as infected by a virus.
It seems virus propagators and spammers around the world have resolved to boost their activities beginning the very first month of the new year. And India being a vulnerable market, comprising an increasing number of less-informed Internet users, has only caused users here to fall easy prey to these attacks.
According to a study conducted by MessageLabs, a Web security services firm, India has acquired the 'number one' position in the online virus activity chart. Analyzing geographical trends across the globe this January, MessageLabs reported that India has 1 in every 30.5 emails as infected by a virus.
Last year too, according to the same firm, India had topped the virus activity chart with a fluctuating virus level of 1 in 32.6 emails as virus infected all year round.
Meanwhile, the US remains the dominant source of spam, with the country accounting for 36.6 percent of all spam sent in January.
Among Asian countries, Japan has recorded one in every 273.7 mails as being infected with a virus. China, by contrast, is reported to have had one virus attack for every 92.7 mails.
For the USA, the virus levels were 1 in 191.5 emails; for Canada, 1 in 158.4; for Australia, 1 in 298.7; and New Zealand with 1 in 768.2 mails.
MessageLabs recorded the global ratio of email-borne viruses as 131.4 emails in January 2008.
Apart from virus attacks, spam is now proving the other most disruptive element in email traffic, said the Web security firm.
Their study found Turkey, Korea, Russia, USA, and Germany as A-lister countries out of where most of the world's spam originates. The US alone accounts for 36.6 percent of spam sent out globally.
The global ratio of spam mail was found to be 73.4 per cent, which means one in every 1.36 emails was affected, according to MessageLabs.
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