Hacked Affiliate Link

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Hello Warriors

Although I visit this forum on a daily basis and very seldom make any posts, I know that I will receive the answer that I am looking for here, where I have learnt a heck of a lot so far.

One of my blogs that I am using to promote some affiliate products has been hacked, pretty cleverly as well.

When I follow one of my clickable affiliate images on my own computer all the way through the product's squeeze page through to payment then my clickbank affil. name shows at the bottom of the page as per normal

Now, it's a spot on sales page and should convert very well, I noticed that I had only had one conversion this month and it didn't seem right.

My plan of action was to go into an internet today and go to my site and follow the same link through to payment, and wo behold there was a different affiliate name where mine should be

Back home an hour later I repeated the process on my machine again, have a guess - my affiliate name was there.:confused:

Obviously the hacking software or whatever knows what to show on different ip addresses

Now I do not know whether it is a random hack, or is it perhaps the product owner switching the links???

Any advice and a course of action to take will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Fox
    I'd like to know what you find, if anything. If your site is hacked you should be able to see whats going on. If you can't find someone who can.
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    • Profile picture of the author machineboy
      A couple of days back, I found over a gig of virus or whatever it is called inside my pictures folder. It had been sending spam to everyone on my contact list inside my laptop, Ezine put my account on suspension until I contacted them and explained the story. Got an upgrade to platinum after my next article submission, so that worked out okay. The first I noticed was that a load of emails were getting returned to me by my email client, spam that I had not sent, next thing a friend of mine in NZ skyped me saying that he wasn't interested in the digi products that I was spamming him with, he was one of many.
      When I found all of this digi virus and tried to delete it, it wouldn't delete. At this time I got called out to a job. When I returned a couple of hours later the virus (if that's the right name for it) had disappeared. I then ran two full scans,microsoft security essentials, followed by norton 360, both found nothing. It's a bit of an enigma:-)
      Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author oldwarrioruser1
    This is off topic, but your sig doesn't work with HTML.. you need to use BB code.
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    • Profile picture of the author machineboy
      That's a site that I don't even bother with now, was more of a learning curve, unsuccessful one. Don't know what it is doing here, shall remove it. Thanks
      Mike
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