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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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Behind the Pop-ups We Have….

I do plan to get back to my philosophical postings, but when I saw this report forwarded by Kellie Stevens today I could only shake my head.

Bittersweet, really…since most of Zango usage, and this is no big secret, comes from arbitraged…

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The Fix on Winfixer via AOL- The Latest Tricks Exposed

Microsoft IE Security MVP, Sandi Hardmeier, pinged me earlier this weekend over yet another problematic advertisement in a big network. She blogs again on the elusive “Winfixer”, or you can pick a name among many, for this deceptive software scam.…

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Cingular and Travelocity Still Advertising Through Spyware

We have talked and talked about how advertisers need to know who their partners are, who they are paying money to show their ads and where, how if they are not careful about who they partner with, they could end…

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Ethical Malware & Ethical Hacking

A former California Judge, Ronald C. Kline, was sentenced this week to 27 months of federal prison for possession of child pornography, he had thousands of pictures of under-age boys on his computer, and he was first noticed because of…

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