Morpheus Hijacks Browsers For Affiliate Links

An anonymous reader submits: "According to this news.com article, morpheus (aka streamcast) has begun silently installing a browser plugin on its users' machines that basically hijacks the web browser even when not running Morpheus. An afflicted browser will sense if a user is going to visit a shopping site like Yahoo! or Amazon, and secretly send them to a different site instead and then redirect them from this site to the user's intended destination. The user will not be aware that this is happening... however the site doing the redirecting will benefit because they are set up as an affiliate partner and will get a commission on the backs of the user. On a horrible scale of 1 - 10 for sleazy business practices, I rate this a 9. Comments?"

Comments

you reap what you sow

[LiquidPC]

On a horrible scale of 1 - 10 for sleazy business practices, I rate this a 9.

Almost as horrible as stealing Intellectual Property from musicians?

Who Cares: I hate gnutella anyhow

[Veramocor]

You shouldnt be using gnutella network anyway. Ive tried it a few times both in its infancy stages and the most recent client. The fact its reliabilty sucks. 95% of downloads you attempt fail.

The napster and fast track network actually worked when I want to download things. Unfortunatley napsters gone now, morpheous has not only turned to the dark side of "spyware" but also is using the aforemention crappy gnutella network, and its only a matter of time until Kazaa is shut down by the 'man'.

I'd be interested in seeing if gnutella ever gets better. It looks like it will be the only surving P2P. I guess I'll just stick to good ole FTP and its 6 sigma( grandios exaggeration) reliabilty.

Veramocor

Re:Gnucleus - no Linux version.

[markyd]

Guess that puts me in the other 5%. I hate Linux.

Re:violate referer terms

[perky]

So this is based on zero knowledge...

quite. Moderators please do your job and moderate this junk back down. The poster hasn't read the article, and doesn't know about the referral rulaes, and certainly doesn't know about the law in regard to referrals. The post is just one great big guess, which whilst not implausible, has no factual content and adds nothing to the argument.