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Originally Posted by Soul_Rebel
will76, your solution won't work because redirection takes place on dns level, surfer doesn't get a chance to visit your linking code at all to set a cookie.
I'll post more about it tonight.
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yes in some cases but not all. I don;t have a solution off the top of my head for the spyware that redirects you to their site instead of your sponsors site.
I am not techie either, here is the idiots explanation of what happens. Trojan modifies entries on your company and tells you computer when you type in say, ifriends.com instead of you going to ifriends you go to the trojans webpage where their cookie i set, you can not tell what happened. From my understanding this is used more for collecting credit card info, than stealling affiliate sales.
I believe most cases of trojans targetting affiliate programs is over writting affiliate cookies which the solution i mentioned will help for those cases but not when the trojan redirect the surfer to another site from the get go.