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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?"
Business 101 - try really , really hard to piss off your customers
I'll think of a funny sig later on
But I keep getting redirected to ZDnet somehow!
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
A 10 is when it takes control of your computer, prints out ads, and has your AIBO tape them up all over your house. It paints your walls with company logos, tapes over your Star Trek tapes with infomercials, fills up your TiVO with the same, and replaces all your vinyls with Britney Spears CDs. It will kick your puppy and attack your kittens. It converts your children to Scientology and steals your beer.
...Business 101 - try really , really hard to piss ON your customers!
You're using her as bait, Master!
The last time I ran a peer-to-peer client, the darn thing went and stole all my music! =)
I always share /dev/zero, that does the job. If they still insist on "share more" then I also share /dev/random. :-)
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