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Originally Posted by Rochard
Is it not possible that Lars bought traffic from a source without knowing exactly where the traffic is coming from? And now that he's shut it off he can't stop this from happening?
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No sir, it is not. Too much history, and Lars professes to be one of the most experienced people online. Doesn't leave much room for him being mislead.
AFF has been part of this scumware world for several years, and knows exactly what is going on. This is not the first time these issues have been brought to their attention.
AFF and their kind have been using this type of 'stealware'(branded by the New York Times) for a very long time. In fact they use to be much worse and advertising over the top of places like TheHun, Hoes.com, and many other high traffic spots on the web. I am talking about back in the Hotbar scumware days. Now it appears they are targeting their traffic a little more, and staying within their niche(s) now that Hotbar and 180solutions have merged to form Zango.
Let us not forget that the FTC even says these guys have paid big bucks for installs of trojans and other scummy software on page 9 of this $4,089,550.48 judgement.
http://ftc.gov/os/caselist/0423142/W...alJudgment.pdf
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41 . These third-parties paid Defendants directly a total of at least $ 1,669,474 .33 to download and install their software programs
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Your post says he shut it off. I assume this to be a mistake in your text as he basically says in his post that he is sympathetic and will attempt to look deeper into it, but will continue to use this scheme to steal competitors and affiliates traffic.