Samizdata - 12:13 pm on May 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

AVG deserve to be pilloried for introducing yet another fake user-agent with their (installed by default) "Security Toolbar", but I am now getting too many of these to ignore and have therefore been forced to allow it.

The crunch came when I gave the URL of one of my sites to an old friend over the phone - he didn't type it into the address bar like a normal person but apparently used the stupid toolbar and got a response saying something like "cannot verify this site" - which to him and anyone else would mean "do not go there" rather than "AVG's new toolbar is rubbish and was refused access because it pretended to be something it wasn't - just like all the other robotic scumbags out there".

Shame on you, Grisoft.