AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6

Re:AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6 by revicon on Friday June 27, 2008 @12:00PM (#229846)

Google / Yahoo do this as well to check up on sites to make sure whats served to their bots is the same as whats served to real users. Google has 3 or 4 different fake user agent strings they use for the googlebot

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Re:AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6 by jonknee on Friday June 27, 2008 @12:12PM (#229858)

Google doing it isn't nearly the same as 10 million users doing it. In fact, this type of activity should be limited to search engines, not client-side apps.

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