Be wary of this....

[rookette22]

This guy sent me an email today...don't know if there's any truth to what he said; but just in case...be careful. I know I'm not taking any chances with it.

Here is the email:

Hello Wild0ne,

I saw some spam in one of the chat windows the other day while playing
at Full Tilt. A ghost player was hitting all the open tables promoting
a product called Poker Prophecy which can be found at
*deleted*

I downloaded the program to look at it. To my astonishment as part of
the process of making it work it asked for my username and password for
Full Tilt!

Upon looking at the program further I discovered the following areas of
great concern to me:

1. When you start to install the program Microsoft alerts you
immediately that the source of this program cannot be verified as a trusted
source. You are told in the advisory to not install it.

2. You cannot uninstall the program by going to your control panel and
using Add/Remove. It is NOT listed. There is no uninstall feature on
the program itself. They put it on your machine with the full intentions
of it being there forever monitoring and sending information back and
forth over the internet to the home of the makers of the program.

3. It is hidden under the C: drive "program files" folder usually
starting with some name like: �v 1234 abcd� or some other filename that are
an obvious attempt to keep you from finding it. When you go into the
folder that houses the program you will see nothing but a shortcut and NO
files. How can a program run with no files? Because the files it runs
on are embedded in other hidden places that they do not want you to know
about. Once you install it you are stuck with it forever. You can
delete the shortcut, but the program remains somewhere gathering information.

4. It asks for your usernames and passwords to any and all casino rooms
that are on the list that it supports. Now if you want to give a
program full access to your computer and full access to your gaming accounts
and passwords you are more trusting than me.

This is not a program that you want to run on your machine!

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL YOUR POKER FRIENDS SO THEY CAN BE INFORMED

[BlibbityBlabbity]

What is this software "supposed" to do? Anyone know?

How did they get your email/user name, rook?

[rookette22]

A different forum I'm in. They have my email and I just saw that this morning. I'm going to try to reply to them asking them what this really is ok?

[PShabi]

It's just a program that pools data from PokerTracker and the users of it have access to the data.

I'm pretty sure it's detected by Party. I also think it's insta-ban from Party if it's detected on your computer. Used or not.

[Boobie Lover]

Yeah, I would delete the link at the top to this site. Party Poker will ban you if you even have a cookie in Internet Explorer from Poker Prophecy.

[rookette22]

Yep good idea. *deleted it*

Edit:

Question: Am I allowed to post a reply from the owner of Poker Prophecy that was posted on another forum?

[Boobie Lover]

It tracks how many times a player cashes in a SNG then gives them a rating based on how many times they have placed. Poker Prophecy is banned by Party Poker and I think Pokerstars.

[rookette22]

Here's more about what Poker Prophecy actually is.
And yes it's been banned by Party Poker; I'm not sure about Stars though.

What I wonder is how they can know every person's stats?