AVG fixes bandwidth-eating AV software

**Glaswegian** · 07-08-2008, 10:54 AM

Security company AVG is upgrading ts anti-virus software to avoid placing an undue traffic load on the websites it scans.

The company has already released a patch for LinkScanner, part of its Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0, and will release a patch for the paid versions of the software tomorrow, said Lloyd Borrett, marketing manager for AVG in Australia and New Zealand.

The behaviour of AVG's LinkScanner caused much animosity toward the Czech-based company, including an anti-AVG website despite the popularity of its free security software.

Web site owners complained LinkScanner was hitting their sites repeatedly, using up the bandwidth they paid for and causing their web analytics programs to suddenly record high numbers of visitors. AVG acquired LinkScanner's maker, Exploit Prevention Labs, in December 2007.

LinkScanner has a feature called Search-Shield. When a person uses a search engine, Search-Shield checks the results returned by downloading and scanning the web pages indexed, and warning the user if a site contains a security threat.

http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...&NewsID=102097

ctutt · 08-19-2008, 10:01 PM

I just installed avg 8.0 (paid 2-user version) today and unless I can find a way to make it faster I will have to uninstall it. It is literally shutting my business down it is so slow. I've tried disabling the search shield and the Link Scanner and it doesn't seem to have any effect.

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Glaswegian Moderator/ Rangemaster TSF Academy; Analyst, Security Team; Oor Wullie; TSF Surgeon and Resident Comic Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Glasgow Posts: 21,371 OS: Win XP Pro SP3 My System Blog Entries: 10	AVG fixes bandwidth-eating AV software Security company AVG is upgrading ts anti-virus software to avoid placing an undue traffic load on the websites it scans. The company has already released a patch for LinkScanner, part of its Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0, and will release a patch for the paid versions of the software tomorrow, said Lloyd Borrett, marketing manager for AVG in Australia and New Zealand. The behaviour of AVG's LinkScanner caused much animosity toward the Czech-based company, including an anti-AVG website despite the popularity of its free security software. Web site owners complained LinkScanner was hitting their sites repeatedly, using up the bandwidth they paid for and causing their web analytics programs to suddenly record high numbers of visitors. AVG acquired LinkScanner's maker, Exploit Prevention Labs, in December 2007. LinkScanner has a feature called Search-Shield. When a person uses a search engine, Search-Shield checks the results returned by downloading and scanning the web pages indexed, and warning the user if a site contains a security threat. http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...&NewsID=102097 __________________ Iain - Defender of the Haggis and all things Scottish. I don't help by PM - post in the Forums. Ad-Aware::SpywareBlaster::SpyBot::SpywareGuard::SnoopFree::AVG Free::HOSTS File::HijackThis::Donate::5 Steps For Infected PCs

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ctutt Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Vista	Re: AVG fixes bandwidth-eating AV software I just installed avg 8.0 (paid 2-user version) today and unless I can find a way to make it faster I will have to uninstall it. It is literally shutting my business down it is so slow. I've tried disabling the search shield and the Link Scanner and it doesn't seem to have any effect.