Thread: AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet

Slimy anti-virus provider AVG is spamming the internet with deceptive traffic pretending to be Internet Explorer. Essentially, users of the software automatically pre-crawl search results, which is bad, but they do so with an intentionally generic user agent. This is flooding websites with meaningless traffic (on Slashdot, we're seeing them as like 6% of our page traffic now). Best of all, they change their UA to avoid being filtered by websites who are seeing massive increases in bandwidth from worthless robots.

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Their new version is absolute shit. Give Avira a shot peoples!

Screw you AVG!!!!

i find that kaspersky is rather good

Originally Posted by junxuan

i find that kaspersky is rather good

Absolutely I agree.

AVG has screwed themselves with this one.

I have found my internet speeds dropping because of AVG scanning everything and I mean EVERYTHING.

I prefer Avira to AVG. Only bad thing is that popup that comes up everytime it downloads a new definition file.

Well I still think AVG is better , well that's just my opinion :)

Avira? Not heard of that one, I'll give that one a go me thinks! I wasnt aware of how AVG was behaving, cant say I even noticed it scanning, cheers for the info man.