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Poker app steals your logins
by Victor Agreda, Jr. May 16th 2006
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...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
