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#31
10-26-2005, 10:50 AM
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Jman, I think you are right on the money with both of your responses. I did get a response from the guy on what site was being played and he said he struggled with it but would rather not right now, which I actually expected. I would have had a hard time with releasing info like that as well.
I am going to ask if he will commit to saying if it was a large well known poker site or one of the smaller less used ones and see what he says. I am a little suprised that there is not more interest in this thread. Something like this would seem to be fairly serious to the online poker world? I'll be out of town a couple of days and may not have internet access but I'll follow up on this when I am back. 
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#32
10-26-2005, 10:54 AM
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FBI probably has enough to worry about beside a kid getting ripped off participating in an illegal activity??? Kind of like going to the FBI to report your drug dealer robbing you.
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10-26-2005, 11:40 AM
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Im very interested and just reading away waiting on replies. [/ QUOTE ] I know that it is possible but I've never opened my mouth about it. I still play all the time, I'm just careful.
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#37
10-26-2005, 12:29 PM
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Zone protects inbound and outbound traffic so I would say you are. [/ QUOTE ] Exactly. A good firewall will tell you when your computer is trying to access the network. If this 'trojan' was at all widespread, people with operating firewalls would be screaming. But all we have is the isolated article and iheards.
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#38
10-26-2005, 12:54 PM
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But all we have is the isolated article and iheards. [/ QUOTE ] Its unrelated, but... I run several networks for hotels (WiFi, wired, etc etc), and at one of them there is a "communal" computer. I had a sign made that said "If you use this computer for transmitting sensitive information, you do so at your own risk" People still played poker on it. I was just astounded.
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#39
10-26-2005, 01:34 PM
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I am a little suprised that there is not more interest in this thread. Something like this would seem to be fairly serious to the online poker world? [/ QUOTE ] I think we all knew that this was an eventuality considering how much money is involved. It'll only really be a "threat" if it becomes widespread. I am curious as to how the kid got it. If he got it through some kind of innocuous email virus because he opened an attachment, and it is going out to millions of people, that is a serious problem. More likely though, I bet he got it from downloading some non-reputable third party poker software, maybe even one of those fake "help me cheat" programs advertised out there that don't work. Then I am not as concerned. Edit: As for which Poker Site this is for. Well, it is my thought that a virus which successfully captured screen shots, interpreted the data, and then transmitted them to an IRC room would be a LOT more difficult to write, and bigger, than a virus which just captured a realtime hand history, and transmitted that. So I would think that this would be more likely a site like Party and Network that does realtime hadn history writing to your hard drive. Don't know how much that narrows it down.
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#40
10-28-2005, 10:15 AM
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I did get another response from the original author.
I basically asked if he would be confortable telling me if it was one of the large popular poker sites or if it was a smaller less used and less known room. His reply was a simple, "One of the largest" I did replay and raised the question of weather or not antivirus software or firewall would have prevented this or not. I assume it would but you never know. Doesn't hurt to ask.
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