Originally Posted by darnit

george.

Webroot has an affiliate program here for SpySweeper.

However my point was to send the surfers to FREE software rather than try to make a buck as an affiliate (I know, shocking!). There will be a much higher rate of adoption from the surfers with a free option and thus much more revene to go around over the long run.

Some good FREE ones to push are the following:

Spybot S&D
AdAware
AVG Antivirus

I purposfully didnt include Hijack This as IMHO it may be a little to complex for the average surfer where as the ones above are just point and click and will remove a fair volume of the crap they have on their boxes.

It wouldnt take much for large traffic aggregators to include links to these on their warning pages, tgps, mailers etc.

It would have the dual effect of both increasing surfer trust while fostering a much more level playing field for honest webmasters.

I am still shocked how little the average webmaster is aware of how much this is affecting their bottom line and just how widespread this practice really is.