This just in from CPA affiliates. It appears the immunize feature on Spybot Search & Destroy is blocking CJ links. Here is part of the email David got back from CJ when he discovered his CJ links were not working after he had used the Spybot Search & Destroy Immunize feature.

Partial Email from CJ Support
“According to another publisher experiencing a similar error, the latest version of Spybot Search & Destroy v. 1.5 immunizes against our links. They had to remove the immunization for our links to work.

While you may not be using Spybot, I would assume that it may be due to similar third party security software which is not allowing the links to route through our servers to the destination page.”

Read the rest and follow the conversation to see if javascript or link cloaking helps or if people can find any other type of work-around. CJ affiliates Spybot Search & Destroy Immunize is killing your Sales!

Update 10/19 - From the info I’m reading at various places, this is not just standard cookie blocking like many anti-spyware programs do, and it’s not like the Norton blocking that actually stripped the ad or banner. Evidently it will still allow your links and banners to show up but when the buyer clicks the link goes to a page not found error so in addition to not getting a sale it looks like you have bad links. People are saying cloaking does not help but I’m not certain how thoroughly anyone has tested.

DigitalPoint has a discussion going and evidently Ebay rover links are not blocked, only links that use CJ domains, as people are speculating that it’s blocking domains at the hosts file level.