Affiliate Summit has kindly given us three extra passes to giveaway, which we in return will be giving away to a few of our users. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, Nov 11th.

Entering our giveaway is extremely simply. Just leave a short 2-4 sentence comment on this blog post saying what you like about our products, services, support or anything else you'd like to comment on. Please make sure to have no more than 4 sentences, we would like them as brief as possible

These testimonies will be displayed around the site so be aware that you are granting us permission to do so the moment you post your testimony. Of course we can always remove them by request later if necessary.

If you do not win, don't worry your still in luck, because you can use the coupon code SHAWN100 or MISSY100 to receive a $100 discount off your ASW passes. We will have the winners on wednesday, we will be randomly drawing the winner like we did last time.

Here are some of the up and coming meetups for the month.

• Los Angeles, Nov 15th.
• New Jersey, Nov 15th.
• San Francisco, Dec 6th
• Seattle, Dec 6th

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I made a mistake in the previous blog post to not mention this: you need to delete all of the old ZEND ENCRYPTED files before uploading the new version. We need to remove all traces of the old files because the security vulnerability exists in them.

The new version of the prosper202 software has less files. So when you upload this version, because there are less files than the previous versions, it will not delete all of the old files. This means there will still be files remaining that have the old zend encpytion on them, which are a security vulnerability. So you need to delete all of the old files and then upload the new unencrypted files.

The Prosper202 1.1.2 release is the same as the 1.1.1, but I needed to change the version so everyone would re-download the files, and make sure they follow the installation instructions exactly. This is to fix the issue security vulnerability described: ---HERE---, which if you have not read, you need to read.

AGAIN YOU NEED TO DELETE ALL OF THE OLD ZEND ENCRYPTED FILES BEFORE UPDATING TO 1.1.2. YOU CAN DO THIS BY WIPING OUT THE DIRECTORY AND INSTALLING FRESH, THE INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE.

Please also note that Prosper202 is now fully open source

NEW UPDATE AVAILABLE, PLEASE CHECK NEWER BLOG POST

Everyone who has Prosper202 install needs to immediately download and upgrade to the newest version. There was a security vulnerability we've found that is now fixed in the new update.

BEFORE INSTALLING THE NEW VERSION YOU NEED TO DELETE ALL OF THE OLD FILES COMPLETELY, THERE SHOULD NOT BE A ZEND ENCRYPTED FILE LEFT ON YOUR DOMAIN! ANY FILE STILL EXISTING THAT IS ZEND ENCRYPTED IS A POTENTIAL VULNERABILITY THREAT, THEY NEED TO BE ALL DELETED!

Click Here To Download Prosper202.

The Details

Earlier today/yesterday we were notified of a security vulnerability in Prosper202 and have been working non-stop to resolve this issue. We're happy to announce that the issue has been resolved. It appears that the Zend encryption technology we were using caused this problem. This vulnerability in Zend allows the attacker to break into an individual's Prosper202 install and potential steal all of the target's valuable information. This has now been fixed by completely removing all of the Zend encryption that was previously on all of older versions of Prosper202. If you were one of the few using the IonCube encrpyted version of the software, you were not at risk.

We need to say thanks to Dimitrios [ ToughMarketing ] for starting the thread on WickedFire and alerting us of this problem. He was able to bring the security vulnerability to our attention and help us fix the issue. If you see him around, please give him a huge thanks as not only from us at Prosper202, but everyone else who is using the software can thank him for helping find the bug, truly helping out on resolving the issue.

Also we want to say thanks to SlightyShadySeo, UberAffiliate, Jason at Ads4Dough, Harrison at CPA Share, and Amish over at HexaTrack for getting us in contact with everyone who we needed to talk to.

Because the issue was directly related to the usage of Zend Encrpytion, as we have noted earlier, we have completed removed all encryption on the software, which makes Prosper202 now an open-source project. We could have continued encrypting it with IonCube or other encryption software but have been thinking about doing a Developers version. Rather than go through all that, we decided to make the source 100% fully open to developers.

This should be great for any one who now wants to develop onto of Prosper202 and add or edit new functionality. There have been many requests to get access to the source code, and now we'd like to say everyone has access to it. We ask that if anyone has any updates or suggested bug fixes to please submit them so we can together make a better, stronger, and faster application. Our hope is that anyone developing in the community on this open source project would gladly help out by submitting any work done but of course its not a requirement.

Please forgive us if some of the code doesn't look that pretty, as because this is a rush update, we haven't had time to make changes on everything making it easier to work on for outside developers. Some of the code does need to be re-written to make it more optimized, but you'll now have access to everything.

Because this release was rushed, we did not get a chance to add all the features as planned, the next big update should be on Nov 25th, as scheduled in our development roadmap. There was a few things changed quickly for the new installations however.

• P202 was having a hard time picking up the keywords from the Zango CPV network, it now correctly tracks the bided keyword.
• P202 now picks up the ?keyword variable if it exists, we found some 2nd-tier ppc networks sending the bided keyword in as this variable in url by default.
• We've added a few ppc icons: AdSonar, Pulse360, and AdTegrity

You can download the latest version 1.1.1 here, and you can find the upgrading instructions in our documentation docs.

Prosper202 is not only open source now but many users have asked if we'll start charging for Prosper202. The answer to this has always been no. Prosper202 will remain free. If you truly like help our cause, we gladly accept donations and any development anyone is willing to contribute.

Thanks and enjoy!