dstiles - 11:19 pm on Jul 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

Ok, I agree with your comments, Bill, but my main concern was for a webmaster (eg me) who tried to keep traffic on-site; I needed to prove AVG wasn't hijacking my customers who had accidentally strayed (especially with google currently spidering and serving up 8-year-old content!).

I suspect by far the majority of sites do not include managed 404's and most cannot even modify their server's error set in any case. I agree AVG should not try to hijack in this fashion.

Although don't some browsers auto-redirect to google/msn (toolbars?) anyway on a 404? Not so commercially sensitive and more obvious but a similar situation.