India has overtaken the United States as the world’s supreme spewer of spam. Indian computers distribute a sixth of the roughly 100 billion junk emails sent daily, according to an October report by the online security firm Sophos. It attributes India’s rise to a fast-growing population of novice users who unwittingly download viruses that turn computers into zombie spam distributors. Security-awareness campaigns and tighter oversight by Internet service providers helped the U.S. fall to third.
SHARE OF WORLD'S SPAM
Country 2012
2011
1. India
16.1% 8.8%
2. Italy 9.4% 1.9%
3. USA 6.5% 11.3%
4. Saudi Arabia 5.1% N/A
