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LinkShare links and AVG anti-virus software

Oct 26 2009

As you may have heard, an update over the weekend to some anti-virus software from a company called AVG is interfering with some LinkShare links between affiliates and advertisers. We assume this was unintentional. We discussed this with executives at AVG this morning, and expect this matter will be resolved soon.

We will post more as soon as we have news.

Update, 7 PM – We’ve spoken with AVG and the issue appears to be resolved.  LinkShare links are working as they normally would on computers with AVG installed.

Mark Kirschner, CMO

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4 Comments on “LinkShare links and AVG anti-virus software”

  1. Roseli A. Bakar Says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 11:49 AM

    Great to see that you are working to solve this issue :)

  2. Affiliate Links being Blocked by AVG AntiVirus – 5 Star Affiliate Blogs Says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    [...] Trust reported this to Linkshare via Twitter over the weekend. Today Linkshare tweeted and blogged that they are working to resolve this issue with executives at AVG and they hope this will be resolved soon. LinkShare links and AVG anti-virus software [...]

  3. Carol Says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 1:45 PM

    I didn’t know LinkShare was having a problem, but I did notice that my AVG was making it impossible to visit normally safe webpages. Thanks for working with AVG to solve this problem.

  4. Howrd Says:
    October 27th, 2009 at 9:04 PM

    Please remember most Publishers links hit an internal server before re-directing through a Linkshare server. It is important we work with AVG to allow that re-direct to occur also.