A review on a post on Legal from My E-commerce blog.

After i had taken a review on the blogspot http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Legal, what shocked me is that among the 29 countries in Asia Pacific, Malaysia got ranked the 5th among those countries as a spam distributor as Philippines ranked top, followed by Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Laos. Besides that, Malaysia also ranked 7th as the propagator of zombie machine, behind China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam. The survey result has been conducted by Symantec Corp, a security solution vendor.

Spam is actually a mass electronic distribution of unsolicited email which is sent to computer users' email accounts, Usenet groups advertising, promoting or performing actions such as :

• The forwarding of email
• The advertising or promotion of pornographic web sites
• Advertising or promoting unsolicited web sites
• The harassment of individuals or groups
• The forgery of email headers of your email
• The promotion of unsolicited business activities
  
  

Furthermore, the survey indicated that 96% of computers in Malaysia are zombie machine which means those PCs have been compromised by hackers and used to trick those computer users to reveal their personal information, such as passwords and credit card number, bank account numbers.

The lack of awareness is the main factor that causing this issue to be happened. Those internet users are not aware to safeguard their personal information plus the widespread use of pirated software which may contained some deadly virus such as Trojan Horse, Worms, and other malicious code.
It is suggested to use some combination of antivirus, firewall, and intrusion detection capabilities. Besides that, choosing a more trustable search engine is also an important step to avoid being spam.