[Shacs] need a new virus scanner..

[Bronius Motekaitis]

Ah, good point..  I once had a "google website accelerator" (or something
similar) active.  Basically, it did the same thing: prefetch links likely to
be clicked.. It's a good idea but can skew webstats. For me, I just find it
really annoying.  I guess it also eats a little cpu and browser http threads
(are they called http threads?  sessions?)

speaking of making things faster... have you downloaded your new
Firefox 3<http://getfirefox.com/>yet?  gmail is noticeably faster!

-bronius

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Scott D. Reinlie <s_reinlie at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  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 malware
> scanner <http://free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1241> (a part of AVG version 8
> antivirus), which checks search engine results before a user clicks on them,
> is making a hash of website traffic stats<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/avg_scanner_skews_web_traffic_numbers/>.
> 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 2<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/avg_scanner_skews_web_traffic_numbers/page2.html>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-problems/>
> .
>
>
>
>
>
> *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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