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Adware, Spyware & Greynets

CJ Class Action Settlement Payements Made on Feb 9th, 2009

Last summer, Commission Junction settled a Malware class action lawsuit for $1M.  According to the terms of the settlement (see www.cjsettlement.com) after the lawyers take their share (typically 30% I think), the remainder of the class action fund was to be…

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Interview with a Direct Revenue Programmer

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…

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Coalitions Formed to Fight NebuAd

As more people learn about the tactics of NebuAd, more groups come out against them and they are organizing. ClickZ is reporting that six advocacy groups have formed a loose coalition to fight NebuAd. The groups so far are: Electronic Privacy…

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Deep Packet Injection = Trademark Infringement

It’s taken me a few days to get to this one, but I read the blog of New York Law School Associate Professor James Grimmelmann where he analyzes the NebuAd controversy. In his analysis, he comes up with a fascinating point…

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Parasites | Ecosystems | Diversity Ecology

Digging Deep into to the Summit & When the Sleeper Wakes

I have spent the last few days, off the grid, recuperating from the “controversial” Affiliate Summit” in Las Vegas. Ironically, I found no controversy over the issues. Overall I…

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Pardon Our Dust…

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How to Stop Botnets, Malware

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…

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Once Again, Merchants Paying Commissions on Organic Traffic

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…

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AP: FICO FUD

Yes, I’m having fun with acronyms and abbreviations. I have to do something to counter the anger at the poor reporting from AP on the Fair Isaac report on click fraud. Gasp! They just found out that 15% of clicks are…

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Latest Use for Spyware: Inflating Traffic Totals

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…

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