More Paradise Poker Paranoia

I have started playing at Paradise. Like most people I am concerned about possible cheating. A friend says I absolutely need a firewall. He says that he has installed a series of programs on his computer that tell him if someone is trying to hack into his computer while he is playing to get screen shots. He says he has had 5 or 6 attempts from people to hack his computer. I don't know much about firewalls, or the software necessary to hack into other people's computers. Is this really a problem at paradise or is my friend just paranoid? Do any of you more computer literate players use protective software, and have you detected hacking attempts?


As far as my online experience has gone so far, I am up (but not enough hours played yet to really tell anything). I have witnessed the "irregularities" at paradise firsthand. I have seen the ridiculous suckouts and the peculiar flops. It seems to me like players are flopping good hands too often. I seems like the number of good hands being made/dealt are non-random. I have seen more sets turned and rivered than I have ever seen in the casino. The game seems skewed against the raisers. The guy raising with AK flops an ace and has his heads-up preflop opponent with 22 flops a set. Obviously PP would benefit from "massaging" the shuffle to generate more action. This type of phenomenon seems randomly distributed, that is to say, everyone gains/loses equally, only the pots are bigger. I don't think it would really affect a good player's expectation much. JMHO.