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BEAT: Pokerstars & Moneybookers accounts hacked - WARNING for others (quite LONG) BEAT: Pokerstars & Moneybookers accounts hacked - WARNING for others (quite LONG)

11-25-2008 , 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Jere Tristan
I heard good things about Kaspersky. Too bad I never used it.

You need Comodo + Keyscarmbler free for Firefox and IE, and you'll be set. Oh, and Roboform to keep your passwords safe by adding an additional layer of encryption. This way, make sure you only access Roboform from within your browsers Keyscarmbler-protected environment, and you will be the Fort Knox of the internet.
Sadly, roboform is not available for Google chrome, my new browser of choice. So i'm kinda forced into using old faithful Firefox at the moment.

i recently got infected by a trojan by downloading and running a suspect app. I put the kibosh on my windows install immediately, and loaded my shadow backup, conveniently located within Vista's control panel itself. Up and running back again to my clean customized and personalized install with all my other apps within 20 minutes.



On another note, it would also help to use a computer soleley for poker and financial transactions. Laptops are dirt cheap at the moment, and more than capable of running a million tables. external hard drives, with like 1TB capacities for OS backups and everything else, are also dirt cheap at the moment. Its a great time to be a computar usar.
All great points of wisdom, I ghost my machine 3 times a week back to a fresh Windows Install in 4 minutes. One machine for poker is excellent advice.
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11-25-2008 , 01:31 PM
Just a thought: is it more safe to store your password in a text document and just copy-paste it every time you want to log in? This way a keylogger won't detect it... or am I an idiot?
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11-25-2008 , 03:15 PM
Also I was thinking of just leaving 20 buyins on my poker site and stick the rest in an online high interest savings account.

That way in the worst case scenario you do get hacked they would only get 20 buyins and if you ever needed the rest you could have it back in your poker account in no time.

Thoughts?
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11-25-2008 , 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by mocky
Also I was thinking of just leaving 20 buyins on my poker site and stick the rest in an online high interest savings account.

That way in the worst case scenario you do get hacked they would only get 20 buyins and if you ever needed the rest you could have it back in your poker account in no time.

Thoughts?
I like this ... if you are a $10 dollar SNG grinder there's very little reason to have more than $200-$300 in your roll.
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