Comments on: AVG Wastes Bandwidth

By: HelloKit

HelloKit — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:49:27 +0000

Glad to see there will be a fix for this. Now how about letting us turn the feature off without turning the tray icon into the big red exclamation point of doom? I know how to surf safely, I don’t need a babysitter, thanks, but I would still like to be able to tell when something is actually wrong with my virus protection.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:44:04 +0000

@Lloyd Borrett: Considering a rep from your company already replied to this post… don’t you think your getting a little spammy?

By: Lloyd Borrett

Lloyd Borrett — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:19:10 +0000

AVG has already responded to resolve this issue. The full response can be seen at http://www.avg.com.au/index.cf.....eature=104

An updated version of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 is already available, see http://www.avgfree.com.au. The Search-Shield component of LinkScanner has been modified to only notify users of malicious sites. The equivalent modification to the the AVG 8.0 commercial products will be rolled out on 9th July 2008.

Once the updated version has been rolled out to all AVG 8.0 users the issue will be resolved.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett
Marketing Manager, AVG (AU/NZ)

By: AVG Link Scanner fix coming… | That Net Site

AVG Link Scanner fix coming… | That Net Site — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:03:59 +0000

[...] like forums AVG has accepted the issue as not ideal and is now about to release an update on the 9th July that will change Linkscanner to only scan those pages you will actually visit, just prior to it [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:56:20 +0000

Thanks for a reply!

By: Pat Bitton

Pat Bitton — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:16:17 +0000

Following is AVG’s official response to LinkScanner concerns:

We’d like to thank our web community for bringing these challenges to our attention, as building community trust and protecting all of our users is critical to us. We have modified the Search-Shield component of LinkScanner to only notify users of malicious sites; this modified version will be rolled out on July 9th 2008. As of this date. Search-Shield will no longer scan each search result online for new exploits, which was causing the spikes that webmasters addressed with us. However, it is important to note that AVG still offers full protection against potential exploits through the Active Surf-Shield component of our product, which checks every page for malicious content as it is visited but before it is opened.