A Revolution is the Solution
People should start suing the people who make this adware, spyware and malware in big class action suits. The federal courts have already said in smaller cases that "It was my affiliate" is not going to fly anymore, because it would take these people three SECONDS to research the person who they were considering to be their affiliate and find out "Oh, yeah, this guy has a horrible track record for installing spyware and other products with no sort of warning. We don't want him as our affiliate."
I'm lucky. I have never gotten hit with anything worse than a piece of adware that my spyware scanner found and removed with no problem, but these Aurora-type things? No thank you, and if the United States government really wanted to do something important, they would sue the people who make Aurora for violating the anti-spyware and malware laws.
Excellent Paperghost! I'm glad you raised the question here how the users gained through the rogue affiliate should be informed. I have a stealth installed Aurora on my test machine and I'm eagerly waiting for some form of information about the issue.
And what will DR do with the affiliate? Will we see a lawsuit based upon the affiliate breaking the contract they perhaps have signed with DR? But, I suppose the affiliate has an affiliate to blame 
Have you actually recieved a C&D letter from one of these companies?
Good article too. It would be nice to see at least one of the main companies (not affilliates, they can just go and burn themselves) put up in court for breaking whichever law(s) are applicable. Maybe if lots of the customers, no, my mistake, victims all got together and did a lawsuit against them (possibly class-action? I'm not too good with law and other associated things) it might get somewhere?
*sigh*
It's not likely to happen though IMO.
We do have all these people in our forums at one point or another screaming for help to remove their software (I'm one of them right now, on behalf of a friend :D). What if these stories were made more public? Wouldn't these companies be dealt at least a PR blow though not a legal one? Or is this idea so obvious that it's already been done and proven not to work?
Well, I'm pretty vocal, if that helps any 
I've never had a C&D letter, because I swear to God, I would wreak so much havok in a rage-fuelled frenzy that they would wish they hadn't bothered. let's face it, I cause enough mayhem as it is
Roger, keep up the good work and let me know how you get on with your install. And the affiliate daisy chain :P
my friend i agreed with you totally
sometimes it may seems that your working for the Adware companies
but at the end of the day
its do what you do..
or buy a .55 snipers rifle
and take them on that way ....
not the best of ideas
Dont let them grind you down
> they say "Thanks very much", remove the rogue affiliate then thank said person / company / whoever with a Cease and Desist letter?
Or, just as often, all of the above with the exception of removing the "rogue" affiliate.
If Direct Revenue and its clones only did installations with proper user knowledge and consent of what their software does, almost no-one would ever install it. Their business models are dependent on stealth installation, from unread EULAs to browser exploits.
Their affiliates just know what's expected of them.
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