Poland has shifted into 3rd place in the ranks of spam distribution. Because the Polish people have not taken notice to PC security, most of the spam distribution is carried out by “zombies,” also called botnet computers, intercepted by Trojan horses, worms and viruses under the control of hackers.
Nevertheless Poland is even now outranked by the US and China, and spam is being transmitted from PCs throughout the globe. Sophos has purported that spam is even being disseminated from the Vatican and Antarctica.
Brett Myroff, of Sophos, was quoted as saying;
The problem is caused by the home user and his want of alertness to PC security. The likely reality is that (relayed spam) will not drop unless home users take action to secure their computers and put a halt to the zombie PC problem.
The majority of people do not know that they must do more than merely embedding with anti-virus software on a PC. Spam messages with embedded images, rather than text, are capable of evading detection by certain anti-spam filters that depend on the examination of textual spam content. The PC users must make use of a rightly configured firewall and sprint spyware deletion programs to make sure that their PC is not a zombie.
Sophos advises that PC users make sure that they maintain their security software up to date, plus utilizing a rightly configured firewall and deploying the most recent operating system security patches. Businesses are also required to look to put into practice a best-practice policy about e-mail account usage.
