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Morpheus Hijacks Browsers For Affiliate Links

Posted by timothy on from the oh-no-this-can't-be-true dept.

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?"

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  1. you reap what you sow by LiquidPC · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    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?