Changing Affiliate ID through ROUTER settings?
 

Is this rumor true? I can understand it being an issue with LINKSYS but there's tons of other routers out there...

:helpme

what are you talking about?

?

highly doubt its possible with just a router..

me 2

Firmware change via Active X?

Could probably do it with a very poorly coded proxy or extremely shitty firewall.

But anyone "smart" enough to do it shouldn't be "dumb" enough to do it so it will trace back to the extra $ in a bank account.

...shouldn't.... :2 cents:

If you don't know, don't open the thread, you IDIOT.

Adware/toolbars/other crap like that is enough and many people have installed it.

It seems possible with a combination of many things... I guess for the mask to work, you'd have to pop a 1 x 1 window or something to register and do a dynamic ID change.

I was hoping someone would post the URL to a Russian article about this that was posted a while back.

Nevermind, I found the code at another board. Now, I gotta report this shit to Spybot and Ad-Aware.

Fucked up shit!

Hahaha this is great, all these spyware companies are trying every possible loop hole to get their crap on your computer before Microsoft puts them all out of business with SP2. I can't wait :glugglug

SP2 will kill Active X? Got a link to back up that assertion?

By the way, many of the traffic trading scripts are 'blind' to Active X generated redirect 1 x 1 page load traffic. That's why I don't buy traffic :winkwink: :thumbsup

I dont see how this could be possible. It would have to be a hack/flaw of the router. Not all routers.

sp2 won't stop spyware, exploits will always be around that would allow remote code executed as soon as a person opens a page.

About the affiliate id thing, it could be possible at the isp's level. If there was an adult host, paid or not, that did this it wouldnt be a suprise

There was an IOS code posted on Russian boards a while back and several articles have been written about this.

Like mentioned earlier, it has to work in coordination with other elements for it to work and it has to be disseminated VERY widely.

For my part, I am reporting the codes I find to SpyBot and Adaware to clean that shit out.

Also, me and several buddies are putting a negative list of sites with spyware that is used for traffic trading. SpyBot and Adaware will get copies of these as well.

Do your part... if you notice something funky, compile a report and send it to the proper people.

Some weeks ago I was adware infected and this adware was showing it's own ads instead of google adwords.General ID hijacking would be a hard thing because you'd have to have an affiliate account with every possible sponsor and they don't have to care if signups come from 100s of different pages.

That's what bots are for. There was a code floating around in 2002 that could be easily tweaked to do this. There's also an email confirm automator (works like econfirmpro but its free). That's the least of the problems, these scumbags have. Getting through firmware now that's another story... But those Russians are crafty:BangBang: :mad:

What is your fucking problem? Assshole. I was asking what he is talking about,. I never heard of this being possible until now. So just because I don't know means I can't open a thread? Holy fuck man. back off.

Interesting info. This is I didnt know. Another missed slashdot article for me probly. :)