Slashdot | AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet

I've been a big fan of the free AVG Anti-Virus since I was introduced to it when I first started at Central. It sounds like that love might be running out though. Apparently the new safe search feature is causing a lot of problems for various websites as its webcrawler is disguising itself and flooding websites. These don't sound like the practices of an honest company or a responsible one. I'm going to wait and see how this pans out, but I might be looking for another anti-virus solution soon. Feel free to comment with your suggestions. Free and lightweight is definitely preferred.

Digg - News

It's still in beta and I don't know if it's available yet for everyone, but I just started using the new Digg recommendation engine. If it's available for you, you should be able to get to it via the link. I think it's really great so far. It makes the upcoming stories section much more usable since the unfiltered version is usually full of spam and junk stories. You can sort your recommendations by most recent, most matches (using Digg users with similar voting habits), and most Diggs. I think overall this will be great for Digg as a whole since stories that were once buried will have a better chance of getting noticed.