Security company AVG is upgrading a component of its antivirus software so as not to place an undue traffic load on the Web sites it scans. The company has already released a patch for LinkScanner, part of its Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0, and will release a patch for the paid versions of the software on Tuesday, said Lloyd Borrett, marketing manager for AVG in Australia and New Zealand.The behavior of AVG's LinkScanner caused much animosity toward the Czech-based company, including a Web site dedicated to the issue, despite the popularity of its free security software. Web site owners complained LinkScanner was hitting their sites repeatedly, using up the bandwidth they paid for and causing their Web analytics programs to suddenly record high numbers of visitors. AVG acquired LinkScanner's maker, Exploit Prevention Labs, in December 2007.
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the new bloated version of your software cant hold a candle to previous versions
so i must move on to something new
As for AVG, they let this problem go on since December of last year? Nice that they fixed it, but you think that a quick update to the link scan timings could have been done much sooner.
I'm also getting tired of the constant asking of restarts. I just ignore it from now on.
im happy with avast now
If you check TweakGuides.com's forums, the owner posted a mini guide about configuring AVG 8 to improve performance. Hopefully that will be enough to convince the "switchers" to give it another try.
Just right click on the feature you disabled and select the "Ignore component state"
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