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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06...affic_numbers/

"Early last month, webmasters here at The Reg noticed an unexpected spike in
our site traffic. Suddenly, we had far more readers than ever before, and
they were reading at a record clip. Visits actually doubled on certain
landing pages, and more than a few ho-hum stories attracted an audience
worthy of a Pulitzer Prize winner. Or so it seemed.
As it turns out, much of this traffic was driven by the new malware scanner
from AVG Technologies.

...... could destroy web analytics as we know it."

And it seems that, as soon as webmasters work out a way of filtering it, AVG
changes the way it works:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06...raffic_as_ie6/

I'm not sure that I like this. It's costing some sites a lot of money in
bandwidth, arguably slowing the whole internet and AVG are very cavalier
about it:

""There's so much hacking activity going on the web. The only way to really
tell what's there is to go and have a look," he told us. "I don't want to
sound flip about this, but if you want to make omelettes, you have to break
some eggs."" (From the first link).

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