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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?"

13 of 489 comments (clear)

  1. First post! by whatthef*ck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yah!

  2. Sizzle This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I could not resist....beat off to this...

  3. Coward is first! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Coward is first!

  4. Re:Frist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And /that's/ what you logged in bitches get. No fucking FP for the bitches.

  5. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah!

  6. neat. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    respect!
    takes brains to be as cunningly evil as this.

    anyhoo, do we looose? nooooo.s

  7. first! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    got the first post! woo hoo!

  8. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    own j00 bitches. first post.

  9. So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot hijacks your manhood for gay limux news.

  10. Re:I just jnew I'd get a first post today! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nope. Not this time.

    - The AC Avenger

  11. Re:Frist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm taking a shit.
    It slowly curls on your head.
    Once again, you lose.

    - The AC Avenger

  12. Re:haha. i'd rate this a 10 on the funny scale by DA-MAN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How in the hell does this unintelligable anonymous coward get +5? People think before you moderate! Although he does make a good point on the discount for people who find the site on their own.

    Anyways not to be too off topic, it doesn't matter if Morpheus doesn't run on Linux or not, the original software is Gnucleus and that runs fine on Linux. Hell Morpheus src code is available on their site, you can modify it to run on Linux if ya like (unless they left enough of Gnucleus intact that a port is just a recompile away.)

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  13. Re:Excuse me... by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is on +5 as I speak- just wait and it will get editor bitch-slapped down. Or are they afraid to since it got to 5 first and more people will notice?

    graspee

    p.s. I liked the way the post used the concept of tooling people into a frenzy and still made +5. Way to innuendo.