>>After Grisoft forced an upgrade in May (AVG7 is no longer supported),
>>by default, the new version
>>**pre-fetches EVERY link on every page users surf to**
>>and it reports a bogus User Agent
>>http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?lowbandwidth=1&no_d2=1&mode=nested&...

> Dumped AVG8 last week, and this seems to work
> http://www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php

> martin

> "JeffM" <jef...@email.com> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:ba7a9952-e61a-46a3-b668-55807a5a4b20@u6g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
> > After Grisoft forced an upgrade in May (AVG7 is no longer supported),
> > by default, the new version
> > **pre-fetches EVERY link on every page users surf to**

> Next is to tarpit the buggers - make the poor sap using AVG wait for a
> looooong time along with the nigerians. Or maybe BOFH at some backbone could
> route traffic to/from avg's domain across some wonky modem line.

> > "JeffM" <jef...@email.com> skrev i en meddelelse

> > > After Grisoft forced an upgrade in May (AVG7 is no longer supported),
> > > by default, the new version
> > > **pre-fetches EVERY link on every page users surf to**

> > Next is to tarpit the buggers - make the poor sap using AVG wait for a
> > looooong time along with the nigerians. Or maybe BOFH at some backbone could
> > route traffic to/from avg's domain across some wonky modem line.

> AVG8 is advertising itself as IE. I say run all IE users through the
> tarpit until they learn a lesson and start using a better browser.

>Paul Hovnanian wrote:

>> Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:

>> > "JeffM" <jef...@email.com> skrev i en meddelelse

>> > > After Grisoft forced an upgrade in May (AVG7 is no longer supported),
>> > > by default, the new version
>> > > **pre-fetches EVERY link on every page users surf to**

>> > Next is to tarpit the buggers - make the poor sap using AVG wait for a
>> > looooong time along with the nigerians. Or maybe BOFH at some backbone could
>> > route traffic to/from avg's domain across some wonky modem line.

>> AVG8 is advertising itself as IE. I say run all IE users through the
>> tarpit until they learn a lesson and start using a better browser.

>Any suggestions for Opera ?

> >> > > After Grisoft forced an upgrade in May (AVG7 is no longer supported),
> >> > > by default, the new version
> >> > > **pre-fetches EVERY link on every page users surf to**

> >> > Next is to tarpit the buggers - make the poor sap using AVG wait for a
> >> > looooong time along with the nigerians. Or maybe BOFH at some backbone could
> >> > route traffic to/from avg's domain across some wonky modem line.

> >> AVG8 is advertising itself as IE. I say run all IE users through the
> >> tarpit until they learn a lesson and start using a better browser.

> >Any suggestions for Opera ?

> I seriously dig Der Ring Des Nibelungen. The James Levine/Metropolitan
> Opera complete cycle has been out on DVD for a while and is a solid
> traditional interpretation. Siegfried Jerusalem, Hildegard Behrens,
> Jessye Norman, James Morris, Matti Salminen. W00T!

> Oh, and the Opera browser is pretty good, too.

> Paul Hovnanian wrote:

> > Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:

> > > "JeffM" <jef...@email.com> skrev i en meddelelse

> > > > After Grisoft forced an upgrade in May (AVG7 is no longer supported),
> > > > by default, the new version
> > > > **pre-fetches EVERY link on every page users surf to**

> > > Next is to tarpit the buggers - make the poor sap using AVG wait for a
> > > looooong time along with the nigerians. Or maybe BOFH at some backbone could
> > > route traffic to/from avg's domain across some wonky modem line.

> > AVG8 is advertising itself as IE. I say run all IE users through the
> > tarpit until they learn a lesson and start using a better browser.

> Any suggestions for Opera ?

> 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&......

> 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&......
> .
> .
> If you run AVG8, you can disable this garbage "feature":http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?lowbandwidth=1&no_d2=1&mode=nested&...

> 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.