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Poker app steals your logins
by Victor Agreda, Jr. May 16th 2006 at 10:45AM
When will they ever learn? Poker blogger and self-avowed geek Wil Wheaton has a note about Rakeback calculator, which F-Secure says contains a trojan. Apparently when RBCalc.exe is run, it drops the payload on your machine, which then proceeds to snatch your logins to familiar poker websites. The distributor, Checkraised.com, has disavowed any knowledge, and put up a welcome how-to for removing the suspect payload. Looks like this was the work of a lone coder, but will online poker ever carry the same feeling of comfort and safety ever again? I hope Checkraised is a little more careful in the future...
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
