[Shacs] need a new virus scanner..

[Scott D. Reinlie]

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/web_news_mid_june_edition


Below is an excerpt from the link above. Thought it was interesting in going
along with the discussion.


 


New AVG Malware Scanner Distorts Website Traffic Measurements


Malware scanners are supposed to be good for the web - or are they? Our
friends at The Register report that the new AVG LinkScanner
<http://free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1241>  malware scanner (a part of AVG
version 8 antivirus), which checks search engine results before a user
clicks on them, is making a hash
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/avg_scanner_skews_web_traffic_numbe
rs/>  of website traffic stats. Some websites are reporting traffic
increases of 80%, but unlike actual clicks, no human eyeballs are seeing the
pages - and, to make matters worse, website owners must pay for the extra
traffic, even though they're not getting actual page views, ad clicks, or
anything else. Web site administrators will want to read on to page
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/avg_scanner_skews_web_traffic_numbe
rs/page2.html>  2 for more technical discussions of how LinkScanner works
and why it's a pain. 

To learn how to disable LinkScanner, and for some suggested replacements,
see this LockerGnome posting
<http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/06/14/avg-linkscanner-causes-more-pro
blems/> .

 

 

From: shacs-bounces at shsu.edu [mailto:shacs-bounces at shsu.edu] On Behalf Of
Bronius Motekaitis
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 3:27 PM
To: SHACS
Subject: Re: [Shacs] need a new virus scanner..

 

Virus free for a week or so now.. but what's with the LinkScanner?  Is there
a way to disable it without triggering that alarm-status icon in the system
tray?



On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Bronius Motekaitis
<bronius.motekaitis at gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks All.. Especially Wade for pointing me right into the free upgrade--
before clicking, I tried finding it myself and still came up empty-handed.
I'm not looking to sniff out spyware, but I may put it on my wife's computer
;)

Keoowwwwnn-- thanks for reminding me to visit lifehacker again.  When I
first got into a SmartPhone, I wasn't sure what to do with myself until I
found lifehacker.com!  :O

-bronius



On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Eric Keown <ekeown at swbell.net> wrote:

Lifehacker.com just posted the 5 best antivirus applications (as determined
by the site users) yesterday.  3 of the 5 offer freeware versions (one is
AVG)...

http://lifehacker.com/395046/five-best-antivirus-applications

Hope this helps.

     Eric

----- Original Message ----
From: Bronius Motekaitis <bronius.motekaitis at gmail.com>
To: SHACS <shacs at shsu.edu>

Sent: Friday, June 6, 2008 8:02:25 PM
Subject: [Shacs] need a new virus scanner..

cheap guy here again, thinking I can get anything for free..  so AVG has
been good for a couple years now, but as you know, it appears to be going
pay-only, forcing an upgrade at the end of June:
http://www.grisoft.com/ww.special-get-new-avg-8-app-freecnv.tpl-mcr1

any suitable alternatives that have done you well?

 

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