Online poker virus, allows cyber thiefs to see your hands.......

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  • capitalist pig
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    • 01-25-07
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    Online poker virus, allows cyber thiefs to see your hands.......
    Maybe this is old news, not sure.



    Online poker players beware: there may be someone at your table looking at your cards, and they’re not standing behind you.

    A new virus making the rounds on the Internet enables cybercriminals to take screenshots of opponents’ hands on popular poker sites such as PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, according to ESET, a Slovakian online security company.

    Potential cheaters can then attempt to join the tables where victims are playing to gain an unfair advantage.

    “It’s quite a benign trick,” Urban Schrott, an IT security analyst at ESET, told SiliconRepublic.com, “but I guess that’s all that really matters in poker.”

    The trojan virus, Win32/Spy.Odlanor, is installed on users’ machines after downloading poker-related programs such as player databases and calculators, ESET wrote in a blog post. The virus can also be picked up by downloading applications from sources other than the official websites of software makers.

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