said by bobince:I have been in contact with STOPzilla recently. They claim this promotion is undesired, and it's my personal belief that they're sincere. This is always the danger with an open affiliate scheme, especially when the ad networks are involved.
More policing is required both from the promoted companies and the networks - although given that we know *they're* unlikely to do anything about it, companies like STOPzilla need much tighter control over their promotional activities.
To add to Eric's list, the most common offender is probably VirtualBouncer (and its sister application AdDestroyer), installed en masse by other parasites including IE security exploits.
Here's the link that the adware calls after installation:
