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.
AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet
Saturday, July 05, 2008
AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet
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AVG report that they have fixed this issue. They've written a response on their Australian site about resolving the linkscanner issue along with a new release of the AVGfree product.
AVG Responds to and Resolves LinkScanner Issues
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