There have been lots and lots of posts around about the FTC shutting down known spam-botnet- child-pornography-hosting provider Triple Fiber Network (3FN.net), (aka Pricewert LLC, APS Telecom, APX Telecom) yesterday affecting 15,000 websites. The FTC said they were actually advertising…

Here is a very interesting interview with one of the programmers for Direct Revenue where he talks about how he uninstalled viruses and adware and how they kept them from doing the same to them. He also talked about how they…

This just in… ValueClick will 2.9 million for CAN-SPAM violations by it’s Hi-Speed Media division, in which they used deceptive advertisements to draw people to their websites. The advertisements promised something for free, such as a free laptop, PS3’s, Plasma…

I guess I should call this the Search Engine Litmus Test, but Google is still the king of search, so we will focus on Google and whether Jason Calacanis, who said affiliates were at the bottom of the food chain,…

Nice little point counter point on click fraud from Forbes, they ask Shuman Ghosemajumder from Google a bunch of questions on click fraud and had Tom Cuthbert from Click Forensics rebut them. Such as this little exchange about counting “back…

It has been an interesting few days in Second Life, a long few days for Mystik Boucher who broke the news about the WSE being “hacked” by Thurston Hallard, and I am sure they will be looking longer to her now…

Just finished reading a couple stories from Wired.com, one was called Desperate Botnet Battlers Call for an Internet Driver’s License that summed up the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s Counter e-Crime Operations Summit and some of the things they were talking about to…

I remember when I first go into affiliate marketing and discovered the old CJ forums that blew up and grew into Abestweb, and then when adware and spyware started overwriting affiliate cookies like there was no tomorrow, we tried and…

Adware and malware are not just for hijacking sales anymore, it can help you sell a web property as well. Not directly, of course, but in traffic statistics and the number of unique visitors your website gets. It’s still all…

Lots and lots of Google news recently, but today it seems some of the pieces of the puzzle are coming together. Not only have they recently beaten Microsoft in brand recognition, now they have overtaken them as the most visited…