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Originally Posted by Agent White
A question:
Lets say an installer changes affiliate codes, and credits whoever consigned the install software. This of course, is detrimental to affiliates, having a smaller impact on cash programs other than those affiliates not promoting them anymore.
Let's take it one step further:
Let's say I have my own cash program. What is preventing me from having an installer change an entire signup link to my cash program's signup page?
For instance:
If my cash program is www.agentcash.com"
What is preventing me from having the installer change
http://signups.nastydollars.com/?revcode=ffmovies
to:
http://signups.agentcash.com/?revcode=agent
... thereby robbing nastydollars of a signup? |
Actually I believe it is CWS that does something like this. It doesn't change the links or alter the cookie, but when the targeted URL is typed in or clicked, the program automatically redirects the surfer to a site of his choice.
So if you clicked on nastydollars.com/yourid the program would recognize nastydollars.com as the targeted URL and would automatically redirect the surfer to agentcash.com and the surfer would never even see the nastydollars site.
As Kellie explained, these spyware programs don't change/alter/modify links or cookies. They help affiliates do that via forced clicks or redirecting surfers to another site.
Missie