Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus is messing with my logs

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by tobycoke, Jul 4, 2008.

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    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)
     
    tobycoke, Jul 4, 2008 IP
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    tobycoke Well-Known Member

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    gostats Peon

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    There have been some issues with AVG sending out fake traffic recently. Maybe you are noticing some of those effects?
     
    gostats, Jul 8, 2008 IP