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July 6, 2008 — osblues

I’ve not had this confirmed from any of my contacts at AVG via the Google Group I belong to, but this post on the Australian Whirlpool Broadband Forums, suggests 9th July might bring the release we’ve been waiting for.

I’ve also found Lloyd Borrett posting the same info here.

If I hear any further confirmation from AVG, I’ll let you know, until then we’ll see what happens on the 9th. Interestingly Lloyd doesn’t see to know what day it is, either that or my calendar is wrong –

In working with the web master community, AVG has responded immediately and on Tuesday, July 9th, AVG will issue a product modification to address the spikes that a few individuals have seen with their web traffic.

Tuesday? I make it Wednesday, ah well, we might see something Tuesday or Wednesday then 😛

Nice use of “a few individuals” there Lloyd, I wouldn’t class it as a few myself.

Now confirmed by Pat Bitton at AVG, see comment below.

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Posted in Avg, Spam, Technology. Tags: apache, Avg, iis, logs, Spam. 2 Comments »

Pat Bitton Says:
July 6, 2008 at 6:51 pm

Hi Adam

I can confirm what you’ve seen is correct. Here’s the official statement if you haven’t seen it:

We’d like to thank our web community for bringing these challenges to our attention, as building community trust and protecting all of our users is critical to us. We have modified the Search-Shield component of LinkScanner to only notify users of malicious sites; this modified version will be rolled out on July 9th 2008. As of this date. Search-Shield will no longer scan each search result online for new exploits, which was causing the spikes that webmasters addressed with us. However, it is important to note that AVG still offers full protection against potential exploits through the Active Surf-Shield component of our product, which checks every page for malicious content as it is visited but before it is opened.

Pat

osblues Says:
July 6, 2008 at 7:06 pm

Thanks Pat, official confirmation is much appreciated.

OSBlues

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