India now #1 for spam thanks to compromised PCs and botnets

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Article.

India has become the top spam-spewing nation on the planet, suggests a report.

Compiled by security firm Sophos, the report ranks nations by the amount of junk mail routed through computers in each country.

India has leapt to the top of the spam chart in less than a year, rapidly overtaking the US, said Sophos.

The related article on botnets is interesting reading too.