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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Thursday 29 Oct 2009 10:59 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> Salting the Bones...
>>
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>>| Also, the per-platform download breakdown was
>>| pretty surprising, with Windows accounting for
>>| 65%, and Mac and Linux pretty much splitting
>>| the remainder evenly...
>> `----
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>> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/10/salting-bones.html
>
> Heh, it looks like the Windows users tend to be bigger "freetards".
>
>> AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6
>>
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>>| In late February, AVG paired its updated anti-virus engine with a real-time
>>| malware scanner that vets search engine results before you click on them. If
>>| you search Google, for instance, this LinkScanner automatically visits each
>>| address that turns up on Google's results page.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/avg_disguises_fake_traffic_as_ie6/
>
> According to the company, more than 20 million people have downloaded the
> new AVG 8, and this has caused a huge up-tick in traffic on sites across
> the web, including The Register. Because the scanner attempts to disguise
> itself as a real live human click, webmasters who rely on log files for
> their traffic numbers may be unaware their stats are skewed. And others
> complain that LinkScanner has added extra dollars to their bandwidth
> bill.
>
> Daniel Brandt, who runs Wikipedia Watch, estimates that LinkScanner
> traffic to the site has outstripped legitimate clicks by nearly ten
> times.
>
> I wonder how much that skews the "web hits" boolshit.
>
> That articles notes other bias, too.
Windows botnets?
In one site of mine, over 90% of the traffic comes from botnets,
so I need to pay extra.
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