Roulette Casino Spyware

Hi,

Just a warning to everyone that I've found Casino Spyware on my computer after playing live roulette on Betfair.

It's called 'iesnare' - only found it by searching 'hidden files and folders' as it imbeds itself in with the flash drive so avoiding the usual filters.

Once it is on your machine, it feeds back data - lots of data, about lots of things - to a central hub, and continues to monitor your machine's - and therefore your - activity in real time for the duration of its existence on the device.

These are folder names to keep an eye out for on your machine:

•#mpsnare.iesnare.com
•#ci-mpsnare.iovation.com
•mpsnare.iesnare.com
•ci-mpsnare.iovation.com

This may not affect roulette players directly as the software is mainly used against the horseracing punters who play bookmakers off against each other by arbing their bets - but nobody likes being spied on!

I search and delete after each session on Betfair now - every time I log back in it re-appears.

This may be old news but worth mentioning again anyway.

Regards

Nick






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Basically cookies that ensure that your account matches your machine, to prevent fraud.
Not some scary "spyware", just how it works when you bet online and the site needs to
identify that it's "you" and not someone hacking your account to gamble with your money
from some other machine.
It doesn't collect info other than your machine information so it can verify that it's you.
Shrugs.