If youve seen a uptick in visitors to your site over the past month, it may not be real eyes viewing your site but rather a bandwidth hog in the form of an AVG malware scanner.
Slashdot had an interesting note today regarding a 6% rise in their traffic that they attributed to the antivirus vendor AVG:
AVG is spamming the internet with deceptive traffic pretending to be Internet Explorer. Essentially, users of the software automatically pre-crawl search results, which is bad, but they do so with....
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