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Originally Posted by onlineriches
3) Sponsor's need to drastically crackdown on this type of spyware. If there is no money being paid out, or it is too difficult to make money with these methods, the scammers will move on to greener pastures. I think what it comes down to is the sponsors looking the other way because they make their money either way, it is the affiliate who takes the hit. It is alot easier for them to look the other way, then to spend money to develop and implement methods to fight this type of fraud.
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Some sponsors may need to have some pressure applied to get their collective asses in gear over this. While they might not have an instant solution available, they can certainly utilize their affiliates to help track down who is spreading these type of trojans, what sites they are being distributed on, and share information with other paysites/processors about which affiliates are the 'cheats' or are suspected cheats whose traffic needs to be watched more closely. If sponsors would cut the money off from these twits this problem could largely go away within a week, at least for those responsible for this current batch of trojans.