Security

AVG 8 causing trouble for Webmasters!

It has come to light that AVG 8 LinkScanner function is spoofing itself and showing among the stats as valid IE6. By employing the user-agent of Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1), it shows up as visits from the Internet Explorer 6 browser.

There has been no word about it from AVG team and they seem to be nonchalant about it.

In any case, I was not very happy with the LinkScanner function which was introduced in AVG 8.0 and had disabled it with the consequence of a permanent exclamation mark in the system tray icon. The automatic updates also had problems but it was corrected in the later upgrades.

Secure your Computer from USB Pen Drive Viruses

One of the biggest source of viruses for most computer users has been their pen drive. On the internet, you really need to do something foolish to get your system infected, but with pen drives it is too simple.

A bit of carelessness is all that is required for your PC to get infected.

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