IamStang - 2:12 am on Mar 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

My opinion:

You can use whatever means you want to try to disquise your affiliate id. It wont make a difference if the visitor has a spyware program "hijacking" your code.

Why? Correct me if I am wrong, but your site has to send your actual url (including your code) to the visitors browser. Otherwise, the visitor's browser has no clue where to go. Therefore, the spyware will hijack your code.

Unless (maybe), one could write a script that would load the affiliate site without sending the url at all. But even then, wouldn't the spyware hijack the first link the visitor clicked at the affiliate site?

I could be completely off base on this, so take it for what it is worth. Just my 2 cents.