What is Stealware?
Stealware refers to a type of software that effectively transfers money owed to a website owner to a third party. Stealware is a new name given to products that modify affiliate tracking codes in order to change the person to which the payment is due.
Specifically, stealware uses an HTTP cookie to redirect the commission ordinarily earned by the site for referring users to another site.
4 major P2P packages are reported to include stealware. Since attention has been raised about this issue the number of operators has decreased.