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Unscrupulous affiliates are using malware to advertise security software from legitimate firms. The practice is the brainchild of people who make a commission for every sale they generate - and not security vendors themselves. The practice raises serious concerns about the integrity and policing of affiliate programs from big …

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  1. Jon Press

    Less dangerous, but still annoying...

    ... is the increasing amount of spam that seems to be coming from self-appointed "affiliates" of UK operations that would have to abide by DPA requirements if they were e-mailing on their own behalf.

    Time for companies to take responsibility for the actions of their paid agents.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    DNS changer?

    So correct my if Im wrong but what stops them from redirecting trafic to a malicious site with mpack installed?

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