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India: World number two in sending spam mails
Research by security firm, Panda Security finds out that India is ranked as the second most spam originator worldwide By Srikanth RP, InformationWeek, March 25, 2010

During the first two months of this calendar year, the research arm of Panda Security,  PandaLabs analyzed close to 5 million spam messages. To collect these spam mails, PandaLabs created dedicated mail servers – called “spamtraps” - that were designed to capture spam.

The analysis has revealed some interesting statistics. Brazil, India and the Republic of Korea head the ranking of countries from which most spam was sent during the first two months of 2010.

India thus has the dubious distinction of being the second country in the world as an originator of spam mails, with 10.98 percent of spam being sent from Indian IP addresses. This amounts to 5,49,000 spam mails.

But the real disturbing fact is the analysis by the PandaLabs team that the spam analyzed during these two months came from a total of almost one million IP addresses. This means that the spam mails came from zombie computers which were infected by a malware or belonged to a botnet.

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