Editing AVG AntiVirus (section)

==== LinkScanner concerns ====
When AVG 8.0 was first released, its LinkScanner safe search feature was shown to cause an increase in traffic on websites that appear high in search engine results pages. Since LinkScanner disguises the scans as coming from an Internet Explorer 6 browser when it prescans each site listed in the search results, website usage logs showed incorrect and overinflated site visitor statistics. The prescanning of every link in search results also caused websites to transfer more data than usual, resulting in higher bandwidth usage for web site operators and slow performance for users.<ref>{{cite web | title = AVG Disguises Fake Traffic As IE6 | url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/avg_disguises_fake_traffic_as_ie6/|website=Theregister.co.uk|access-date=22 November 2012 }}</ref> AVG initially said that site administrators would be able to filter the LinkScanner traffic out of their site statistics, leaving the problem of excess bandwidth usage still to be solved.<ref>{{cite web | title= AVG update disguises LinkScanner traffic as IE6 | url= http://www.techspot.com/news/30641-avg-update-disguises-linkscanner-traffic-as-ie6.html |website=Techspot.com| date= 27 June 2008 |access-date=22 November 2012}}</ref> Pay-per-click advertising was not affected by the increase in traffic.<ref>{{cite web | title= LinkScanner could be behind surge in web traffic | url= https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2008/06/linkscanner-could-be-behind-surge-web-traffic|website=virusbulletin.com|access-date=30 September 2018 }}</ref>