im pretty sure people arent clicking and downloading programs. once you click the link the bogus site, your computer just instantly downloads it.

Was this just some random who IM'd you looking to play chess for money? If so, why would you ever click a link from him???

No, just like it says in OP the person who contacted me was Alladiin on FTP a HS plo/nl reg. He had previously asked my roommate for PLO coaching and got my aim through him.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't and they are downloading it. If your computer is actually downloading and executing code automatically then you've probably turned off autoupdates for some reason and are running a very old version of your browser.

Ah okay, i wasn't sure if you'd made the link before the conversation started.

I have played quite a bit of heads up PLO against both of these accounts and I believe I have done very well against them, I would be surprised if they could see my cards. They both sucked pretty bad as well. I will go through my hands later to see my results and if there was anything fishy going on.

Both players are seemingly pretty bad, but Alladiin has played abunch of people and at the end of the session he asks for coaching or something similar.

The scary thing is he is actually cloning real websites and adding his own trojan to do these scams. They appear sophisticated and legitimate, but really they are copies of real sites.

basic advice:

when linked to software by someone you don't know over the internet, even when it seems legitimate, just google the software name and get there from the google link.

this prevents new/unknown/fake sites, and should cover 99% of the cases.


although very unlikely - even if the link seems legitimate from a website you know (e.g. www.twoplustwo.com/something.exe), had the hacker successfully gained basic entry to the twoplustwo domain, he could plant a file on their servers without getting noticed/exposing the fake file on the site itself.

100%. I tried doing this with the teamviewerpro site and the fact that it was nowhere to be found on google, just the actual teamviewer site, really sketched me out.

http://www.pokerXtableratings.com/fu...ch/bad_gateway

seems like a reasonable 2550 NL winrate... if you played scout all day

Defintiely didnt download anything- im sure something downloaded without me even knowing, just by clicking a link.

wow awsome winrate... do you think he would accept coaching me?

Post some obv HU hands, please...And then email them to the sites.

Should someone not make a comment there with a link/details in case someone sees it while playing him?

You really really really should've e-mailed the sites and waited a little bit before making this public....