tobycoke
Jul 4th 2008, 10:41 pm
Grisoft's newest version 8.0 of AVG anti-virus is messing with my logs.
AVG Search-Shield is automatically enabled and follows all links in search engine results to see if they are 'safe'. If I have 2 links in a search result (organic & Adwords) it follows both even though the user never comes to my site. In my logs I see 2 hits on each of the 2 links.
It disguises itself as Internet Explorer (fakes the UserAgent) to get around any blocks and shows no referers in my logs. I can't tell what is real traffic and what is AVG.
From what I can tell I am not being charged by Adwords for these AVG follows but I have to investigate further.
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
AVG Search-Shield is automatically enabled and follows all links in search engine results to see if they are 'safe'. If I have 2 links in a search result (organic & Adwords) it follows both even though the user never comes to my site. In my logs I see 2 hits on each of the 2 links.
It disguises itself as Internet Explorer (fakes the UserAgent) to get around any blocks and shows no referers in my logs. I can't tell what is real traffic and what is AVG.
From what I can tell I am not being charged by Adwords for these AVG follows but I have to investigate further.
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)