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Is your server being hammered by AVG8?

by JeffM <jeffm_@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jul 3, 2008 at 05:29 PM

After Grisoft forced an upgrade in May (AVG7 is no longer sup****ted),
by default, the new version
**pre-fetches EVERY link on every page users surf to**
and it re****ts a bogus User Agent
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?lowbandwidth=1&no_d2=1&mode=nested&threshold=5&sid=08/07/03/1411254#24045121

NOTE: All these links are to different points on the same page;
if you drag & drop them onto the original tab/page,
it will hammer Slashdot less.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?lowbandwidth=1&no_d2=1&mode=nested&threshold=5&sid=08/07/03/1411254#24045401
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?lowbandwidth=1&no_d2=1&mode=nested&threshold=5&sid=08/07/03/1411254#24045529

Slashdot says this is causing an extra 6 percent load on them
and is screwing up their stats.

Methods have been suggested
for how site owners can deal with the rogue behavior:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?lowbandwidth=1&no_d2=1&mode=nested&threshold=5&sid=08/07/03/1411254#24046847
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?lowbandwidth=1&no_d2=1&mode=nested&threshold=5&sid=08/07/03/1411254#24046825
..
..
If you run AVG8, you can disable this garbage "feature":
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?lowbandwidth=1&no_d2=1&mode=nested&threshold=5&sid=08/07/03/1411254#24044961

For those who require a free AV,
ClamWin(GPL) & Avast are available--and are less bloated
(and less clueless and/or evil).

....and, of course, if you run a Gecko-based browser
with NoScript, AdBlock, FlashBlock, etc.
and use a little common sense, you avoid most of the crap anyway.
 




 25 Posts in Topic:
Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
JeffM <jeffm_@[EMAIL P  2008-07-03 17:29:47 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Martin Griffith <mart_  2008-07-04 08:40:27 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
"IanM" <nosp  2008-07-04 10:32:42 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Eeyore <rabbitsfriends  2008-07-04 10:24:31 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <  2008-07-06 16:14:45 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
"Frithiof Andreas Je  2008-07-04 19:13:36 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Paul Hovnanian <paulh@  2008-07-04 16:44:13 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Eeyore <rabbitsfriends  2008-07-05 03:57:31 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Rich Webb <bbew.ar@[EM  2008-07-05 10:19:15 
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Eeyore <rabbitsfriends  2008-07-05 20:49:36 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Paul Hovnanian <paulh@  2008-07-05 17:03:41 
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Rich Webb <bbew.ar@[EM  2008-07-05 20:26:06 
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T <nospam.kd1s@[EMAIL   2008-07-06 20:40:11 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
miso@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-07-05 17:13:48 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Jeff Liebermann <jeffl  2008-07-05 18:02:44 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
"IanM" <nobo  2008-07-06 10:01:50 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Jim Thompson <To-Email  2008-07-06 11:04:41 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Jeff Liebermann <jeffl  2008-07-06 12:28:26 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Jim Thompson <To-Email  2008-07-06 12:37:37 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Jeff Liebermann <jeffl  2008-07-06 16:54:24 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Eeyore <rabbitsfriends  2008-07-07 03:51:00 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
Jim Thompson <To-Email  2008-07-07 16:29:45 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
JeffM <jeffm_@[EMAIL P  2008-07-06 11:03:15 
Grisoft back-pedals (was: ...hammered by AVG8?)
JeffM <jeffm_@[EMAIL P  2008-07-06 18:23:23 
Re: Is your server being hammered by AVG8?
miso@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-07-07 17:51:57 

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