Recent online reports say that CheckRaised.com an online poker forum offering tools and software downloads distributed a trojan horse hidden in a one of it’s software packages.
The spyware was identified as Backdoor.Win32.Small.la and was built into a Rakeback calculator application designed to help online poker players track of commission fees collected by gaming website owners.
The program is capable of collecting login information from online poker sites. F-Secure, a company specializing in online security, discovered the spyware application and CheckRaised.com owners removed the download immediately.
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Most experts agree that online poker can’t continue it’s exponential growth indefiniltely. Some prominent industry leaders are even saying there may come a mass exodus if online poker games don’t continue to evolve and find new ways to keep poker players entertained while waiting for their turn at betting.
Simon Prodger of PKR.com has been quoted as saying, “If you’re talking about exponential growth there is a very real ceiling to those limits, but there are still very healthy growth rates”.
While John Anderson, chief executive at 888.com recently told the Financial Times, “The exponential rates we have seen just can’t keep going,…”If it keeps going no one in the world will be working. We’ll all be playing online poker.”
What it comes down to is that real live poker can be so much more engrossing and entertaining. Online poker sites have done their best so far adding animations and high quality graphics, but that might not be enough to keep the players happy and playing.
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