Archive for January 5, 2009

When Affiliates get hacked

While tooling around on Google Diagnostic I happened across the following: Now the site itself appears to be a legit affiliate site for Webroot’s SpySweeper … where all the links point to Webroot: hxxp://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/freescan.html?rc=5757 (URL disabled)I’m guessing the “rc5757” is the affiliate number? However the server itself has been hacked and several malicious scripts have […]