Originally Posted by
Deal
We all know that there is software out there that when run on a machine that someone is playing poker on will transfer hole card information to a 3rd party machine and that information will then be used to cheat the player. This is what the Girah scammer did, this is what Matt 'licks hairy ass' Marifioti is accused of being involved with doing, etc.
The hard part of exploiting a machine is getting that software running on it. It's not all that easy to gain access to machines and run executable install packages. This is why they wrap it up onto something their target machines owners will voluntarily run. Poker related software. Never download any of that stuff from anywhere but the author and even at that you are taking a risk. Free poker calculators/tools should never be run. Anti-Malware and antivirus programs also don't catch these tools. They aren't doing anything any other software you purposely installed on your machine is not able to do. It's not that you aren't getting the tool you are expecting it's that you are also installing their software at the same time.