i wish success and good fortune to all nats clients and know that doing software for others has its up's and down's.
unfortunately, an oversite as huge as this would cause me to run for the hills if I was a client of a vendor and there were so many other options. The damages from the exploit were easily preventable and could signify a bigger root problem.
there are pro's and con's on the argument and hopefully this was the last nats booboo and I feel for the losers who were affected and am appauled by the data being posted around.
XPays ceased licensing our software for Virtual Affiliate (TM) programs years ago and my opinion here is geared towards the smaller webmaster owners out there who are deciding between their different options available.
I still think that if you have a program and cannot build your own affiliate package or buy source code, hack it and maintain/update it and manage it- that it is best to utilize the affiliate program packages built in to the processors btw. This is the least conflict of interest in my professional opinion
