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What is a ‘Parasite’ or Adware. The best way I can explain it is to give you an example.

Let’s say you’re an affiliate for a company sellings square widgets. You have a website and you’ve signed up with an affiliate network to be a affiliate with a company that sells square widgets. You put up a website with ads for the square widgets from the Square Widget Company.

Here is where the scam begins: Many of the Parasite or “adware”companies put out “free” tool bars with hidden programs in them. Sally House Maker and other consumers to download these “free ” toolbars and use them on their computers. These toolbars to monitor web surfing activity through adware applications. They know where you go, what you see and what you click.

Now let’s say Sally House Maker is looking for a square widget and find your site, click on the size of the widget space they want. When she clicks on the link to the widget space she wants, is your affiliate ID number to the affiliate network where it is logged and then on to the seller, so that order can be filled.

However, remember that the toolbar that Sally House Maker installed? Well, that “free” toolbar with hidden adware program intercepts the link with your affiliate ID in it and replace it with their own affiliate ID and sends it on to the merchant, so they get credit for sales, do not you, so they get commission, not YOU.

As Dr. Phil would say “How is that working out for you?”

For many years a lot of affiliates have tried to make waves over this but the large affiliate networks have ignored them and kept pandering to the large companies with the adware programs. Now it looks like it’s time to pay the fiddler!

You can find out more about Adware and Spyware by checking out the Spyware Warrior.

I hope this is a lesson not only to the Parasite (adware) developers, but to the rest of the affiliate networks that allow these companies free reign. The time of screwing the affiliates is OVER!