Sharkscope Now Officially Banned On Pokerstars - Page 10 - Internet Poker

Poker Clif · 11-06-2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Jackal69

someone from stars should really come and answer questions here. If i usually have the PS lobby open in the background and search for my own stats on sharkscope whilst not playing or looking at tables am i subject to a warning? Also any information about how Stars monitors this would be of general interest - is there a teamviewer like interface built into the software allowing them to see your screen or do they monitor what websites you are visiting?

Good idea. I'll ask in the podcast thread if they can contact PokerStars to try to get an interview, or at the very least, do some digging and have a segment on the show.

Poker Clif · 11-06-2008, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ripped

What im pretty pissed about is that PS actually has put spyware on to my machine looking for something like sharkscope? I dont remember reading anything about PS installing spyware on my machine when I downloaded their program to make sure that I was "being a good honest poker player".

Every time I run Norton Antivirus is says that I have one tracking cookie. Is that PokerStars at work?

aoFrantic · 11-06-2008, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Kugr84

They can read the titles of any windows that you have open so if you have sharkscope.com open they can see that you have "SharkScope - The Largest Online Poker Tournament Results Database" as a window. I used to get false positives on PartyPoker back in the day if I opened the Windows Calculator program because the title of the window is "Calculator" and they thought I was running some kind of assistance program and would pop up a box telling me to close it or the PartyPoker program would terminate.

We've already made clear the software steps Stars takes are much less intrusive then Party, thus much different.

NickyC · 11-06-2008, 03:26 PM

Good

MauiPunter · 11-06-2008, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by anon9000

I imagine most of the big online sites however are doing the same thing, so I guess my only option is to play live.. lucky for me there's poker EVERYWHERE now!

So, they havent banned shark scope at your local home games?

Poker Clif · 11-06-2008, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by thejayman

If I use sharkscope on my laptop and play stars on my desktop using the same interent connection will stars still detect it? or do i have to use two different internet connections?

I just checked a player's stats on the laptop while playing on PokerStars with the desktop, both on my home network. No warnings, nothing blew up.

ripped · 11-06-2008, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Poker Clif

Every time I run Norton Antivirus is says that I have one tracking cookie. Is that PokerStars at work?

Its funny that you mention that because I have exactly 1 tracking cookie every time I run a scan also.....

jontsef · 11-06-2008, 04:04 PM

For all those who are so curious about how stars knows you're running sharkscope,

it's not that hard, it's just spyware that was installed when you first installed pokerstars and then every time you 'upgrade' to a 'newer version' it reinstalls the spyware.

most software clients that deal with integrity issues have spyware for that as well.

if they wanted to they could know every program you're running and every website you've been to even if it's not poker related.

evagaba · 11-06-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by anon9000

In any case, its pretty trivial to get around the restriction even with one computer (run a VMWare image with Pokerstars inside the image)

This

**ChicagoRy** · 11-06-2008, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Maso777

I played husngs for awhile on FT and nobody really accepted the rematch if they lost the match. You have this disillusion someone is going to play you over and over again if they aren't winning.

I have played some husngs on FTP (albeit only like 600ish) but I know at least a handful of players with over 10k husngs under their belt combined, and your statement is basically untrue. Maybe you didn't experience many rematches, but this isn't the case overall.

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Originally Posted by MrCasino

Only observational skills can be used at a live poker table, so software shouldn't be allowed for use online.

And you can't coach players at live casino tables, so I guess you're a supporter of banning online sweating?

Live vs Online poker comparisons are usually silly, especially as the main reason for decisions.