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Say it aint so AVG, say it aint so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

4 July 2008 | 00:11
Source: ZDNet

The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. ApparentlyAVG is spamming the Internet withtraffic that looks to be coming fromInternet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. Thispre-crawling isflooding websites with meaningless traffic (Slashdot claims it [...]

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