I was reading a couple of disturbing threads at AbestWeb over the weekend. Members there have discovered that AVG, the #1 free antivirus program, is totally blocking all Linkshare affiliate links and is also blocking CJ links on one of their domains. This is a very serious issue as we head into the busiest shopping season of the year.

AVG is the leading free antivirus program. The AVG site boasts that it’s on over 80 million computers but Download.com shows 226,913,526 total downloads.

Below is the main ABW thread about it. According to Trust, in post #53, if affiliates are using javascript links from that blocked CJ domain, AVG kills the whole page, not just the links. Are you noticing AVG alerts from your links??

Additionally there is another thread over at the Linkshare forum:
AVG Blocking All Linkshare Links? Can Those With AVG Check

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

I’ll follow this story and add any updates below. If anyone else has more info please add it in comments.

UPDATE 10/27: Linkshare reports the issue has been resolved but I think the CJ domain is still blocked.

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