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

Frist

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Frist

[Rampant Atrocity]

I'd have to say the former. The concept of 'karma' is foreign to the Chinese. I had to travel to America in pursuit of the karma i so desire. That would make me a Whore for Karma who happens to be Chinese in citizenship (yeah, I'm an illegal immigrant, so sue me)

pf

[Anonymous Coward]

pf

You gotta be kidding...

[eyepeepackets]

...if you think people who run Win XP are going to either notice or even care. Truth is, sheep get shorn.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Great Comments

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh this is promising, I load up this news article and theres a total of 3 comments posted under it, all of which are below my threshold, I assume all of which are first posts.

First Post!

Re:And once again...

[wadetemp]

Of course, it's reason 1002 why you shouldn't use Windows, because all spyware targets it. And when Linux becomes a more common operating system than Windows (uh, yeah), it will be reason 1003 not to use Linux.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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resurgence of Judaism?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why are all these companies out to fuckin jew ya?

Re:Sleezy, but no point in Morpheus anymore anyway

[Anonymous Coward]

xolox roxorz

Re:Dear Watson . . .

[toby]

No, a 10 is when businesses murder to protect their profits. As Shell has in Nigeria; as American oil interests are currently doing in Afghanistan, and the list goes on. (Recommended reading: John Pilger's Hidden Agendas.)