First place for the United States. Follow-ups of South Korea and
China. Up to that point, only of very normal in this classification of
the country emitting the most pourriels. But the presence in fourth
position of France astonishes more.
The classification was established by Sophos, a British editor of
software of safety for companies, which supervised the four million
e-mail forwarding each day by its networks during the first three
months of the year. To trap the spams, it had recourse to the honey
pots ( English honey pots). A traditional process by which the editor
creates addresses e-mail that it does not communicate to anybody. If a
courriel arrives on these boxes at letters, it is thus that it was not
requested and becomes thus a pourriel.
This small play, the United States thus remains the world number one,
with 35,7 % of the detected spams. Far in front of France which, with
its 3,19 %, arrives despite everything at the foot of the podium. The
fault with the zombies. More and more, viruses and Trojan horses
circulate on line to take the control of computers discreetly and to
make it possible to a pirate to make use of it to emit spams. A many
French Net surfers send thus to their knowledge of the messages
praising the merits of drugs or lotteries on line.
" the zombies are probably the principal reason of the fourth position
of France, they do not cease progressing, estimates Michel Lanaspèze,
directing marketing of Sophos France. 101 of the 301 most recent
viruses installed a catch door [ allowing a pirate to take the control
of a computer, note ]. That is to say a proportion of one on three,
whereas last year one was rather with one on six " .
However, protections exist: to regularly install the updates of safety
of its operating system as well as its antivirus and to configure
this one well. Or else France, which however has recently muscular its
laws antispam, could become a harbour with pourriels well.