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?

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.