Golden Palace Casino

[jpm]

That's good news, you may also want to give AdAware a try. You can get that one at www.lavasoft.de There may be more things lurking that spybot didn't catch. As I said, I use 3 of these programs together on my computer to keep it as clean as possible.

FYI, I too have this 'casino' folder and it was also identified by spybot with the same description if gave you. I, however, have never downloaded GP. I believe that since this is such a generic folder name that it may be giving you a 'false positive'.

[Casinomeister]

...it kept returning and it seemed empty when I opened it. I again deleted it manually yesterday and today Spybot found it again. This is the info Spybot gave me on this folder:

Company - N/A
Product - Casino
Threat - Dialer
Description -
Dialer offering casino access, violating German law by not telling it will close connection and open it's own. Secretly installs additional code.

So now I have my proof. It says company unknown but obviously it was Golden Palace because this "casino" folder was the one that contained the GP software folder. I guess I can't really do anything about it except e-mail them and give them a piece of my mind ( a lot of good that will do), and inform everyone online about these shenanigans. If anyone else has GP installed go into the c:\ drive and see if the GP software is housed in this "casino" folder. Then download that awesome spybot software and run a test. I would be curious to see what happens.

Peace.

This is really strange, but I don't think it's Golden Palace; it may have something to do with the link you signed up through.

I've downloaded GP straight from their website, opened an account, then unintalled (with no problem). Then I ran Ad-aware 5.62 - deleted all of the cookies and sextracker files that it found , then reinstalled GP.

I then uninstalled GP again, and ran Ad-aware - nothing. So this may have something to do with an affiliate spiking the download file somehow. Do you remember where you downloaded this from?

[GrandMaster]

I have never played Golden Palace for money and cashed out however I did have a strange experience with their software. I downloaded it and installed it on my computer and played for fun for a while but decided I wanted to uninstall it. When I initiated the uninstall the screen popped up and said "if you would like to uninstall Golden Palace click continue otherwise click cancel" however the only button available to click was cancel so I went into my c:/ folder and manually got rid of it. About an hour later I heard the lobby music playing from my computer, came up and saw Golden Palace had reinstalled itself and was running. Now when I shut my computer down the software somehow made it so that Golden Palace would run on startup and ask me if I wanted to make a deposit. My homepage on my IE mysteriously got set to the Golden Palace website and would go straight there everytime I started IE. So I removed it again, it has not reinstalled yet but every second day I get a popup on my computer screen that says "It has been detected that Golden Palace has been removed from your computer. Would you like to download and install Golden Palace? Yes No" Has anyone had this happen and if so is there some kind of file they may have hidden somewhere on my drive that I can erase and keep this from happening?

Thanks

You need to find out what reinstalls it. Get RegCleanr or another registry editor or cleaner which can show you all the programs that start automatically. If you are adventurous you can use the built-in "regedit" command, and search for keys containing "run", but make sure you know what you are doing because you can permanently damage your computer if you mess it up.

You should also search for all occurrences of GoldenPalace in the registry (the IE startpage will be there, too) and get rid of them.

Others have commented on Spybot S&D picking something up. In my experience anti-spyware programs are not very reliable in the area of casino software. I had something that identified various Microgaming casino files as Golden Tiger casino (which I didn't have), some others as Casino-on-Net (which I didn't have either). Ad-aware and Spybot S&D don't pick up anything on my computer, maybe I have taught them that my casino programs are OK.

[jetset]

Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Black21Jack - this is certainly very interesting, and who knows how many other folks might have been affected.

If you can't recall where you aquired that GP link (ie the affiliate theory) perhaps the best approach is to approach GP direct, courteously inform them of your discovery and ask them what they know about it, and how you remove it.

I have a feeling others will be doing the same thing in the near future, which might get their attention before this starts getting major publicity...

Edit: Typos.

[Black21Jack]

Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Black21Jack - this is certainly very interesting, and who knows how many other folks might have been affected.

If you can't recall where you aquired that GP link (ie the affiliate theory) perhaps the best approach is to approach GP direct, courteously inform them of your discovery and ask them what they know about it, and how you remove it.

I have a feeling others will be doing the same thing in the near future, which might get their attention before this starts getting major publicity...

Edit: Typos.

I don't remember where I downloaded it from but usually when I hear about a casino I just type the url direct like www.goldenpalace.com, I don't think I used an affiliate link but I may be wrong. I have e-mailed GP and I was polite in asking what is going on. I have a strong feeling that they will not answer my e-mails, you know how it is. These casinos love e-mail correspondence they can just ignore them all they want and they don't have to talk to anyone. Anyways I will keep you all posted as soon as I hear. I have removed all the jusnk off of my computer with spybot including that mysterious casino folder. I am now going to goldenpalace.com to download their software again and run some tests. I will let you all know.

Peace.

[jetset]

Great. I, too have emailed GP asking about this and what they have to say. It will be interesting to see if they give the business courtesy of a response.

[jpm]

I bet you're right though, it sounds like a scumbag affiliate planted that to ensure he'd get the credit for you signing up.

[sorrelltop]

Is it all Playtech casinos or just GP?

[jpm]

I've got a ton of playtechs installed on my machine, but never downloaded GP, and I've not had any of these issues sorrelltop. It sounds like its more than likely GP specific.

[Sodax77]

I continue my text here, i start this playtech spyware-case from Hodgepodge, then i post information/help/etc to WOL
http://mb.winneronline.com/showthrea...t=15842&page=2 (post #17), and finally something new to here.
Yeasterday i download Kiwi Casino from "Reputable Casinos" section. Install it, and run my Ad-Aware (latest updates, latest database), and Ad-Aware found 3 x "golden palace" xxxxware from my computer. I use Ad-aware and Spybot - Search & Destroy a lot, and my computer was clean before that. So i remove these xxxxwares, and i think this is that new variant. Because after cleaning, Kiwi Casino do same thing like any playtech nowdays (after cleaning these xxxxwares): It's starting to download updates. So i write nice letter to Kiwi Casino, and ask about my privacy etc. I hope they answer. And again, if this "golden palace" xxxxware is harmless, why they (Playtech) don't tell that? Why they don't contact for example Ad-Aware, SB-S&D or tell somewhere what this xxxxware collect or doing?
(xxxxware = spyware, malware, thiefware or something)

And Hi Casinomeister and Vortran007 , i finally open my mouth here, after 2 years reading your site. Thanks