Just for the records, the redirection is still there
I just used Free Download Manager to see what was there, see the log.
00:36:08 03/04/2010 Starting download...
00:36:08 03/04/2010 GET / HTTP/1.1
Referer: -
Host: www.avast.eu
00:36:09 03/04/2010 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:36:10 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian)
X-UD-Host: webspace.udag.de
X-UD-Method: header
X-UD-Target: http://www.avira.com
Location: http://www.avira.com
Connection: close
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html
00:36:09 03/04/2010 Redirecting...
00:36:09 03/04/2010 Redirection succeeded. Opening new URL
00:36:09 03/04/2010 GET / HTTP/1.1
Referer: -
Host: www.avira.com
00:36:11 03/04/2010 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:36:11 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=96577428a15804de1a5223535edf8938; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: AV_Lang=En; expires=Sun, 03-Apr-2011 03:36:11 GMT; path=/
location: /en/pages/index.php
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=4, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
00:36:11 03/04/2010 Redirecting...
00:36:11 03/04/2010 Redirection succeeded. Opening new URL
00:36:11 03/04/2010 GET /en/pages/index.php HTTP/1.1
Referer: http://www.avira.com/en/pages/
Host: www.avira.com
00:36:11 03/04/2010 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:36:12 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: max-age=1200
Expires: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:50:48 +0200
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Keep-Alive: timeout=4, max=99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
00:36:12 03/04/2010 Opening file on the disk...
00:36:12 03/04/2010 File already exists. Rename to "index(1).php"
00:36:12 03/04/2010 Succeeded
00:36:12 03/04/2010 [Section 1] - Started
00:36:12 03/04/2010 [Section 1] - Downloading
00:36:12 03/04/2010 Creating new section...
00:36:12 03/04/2010 Cancelled
00:36:13 03/04/2010 [Section 1] - Done
00:36:13 03/04/2010 Download complete
Anyway, why don't we end up with this the easy way?
ALWIL gets avast.eu, Avira GmbH gets antivir.cz, everyone happy, flame war ends.
If not, maybe we'll be seeing soon legal threats between two major AV vendors, while they should be spending that money
protecting their customers from the
real bad guys.