Golden Palace Casino

[jpm]

I believe what happens is that the company that created and updates spybot has these spyware definitions that are not unlike antivirus definitions. They look for a predefined string of code to match up the file to its list of definitions. For some reason, they designated some of the playtech files (like replacer.exe) as spyware, even though every playtech casino will have these same files in them, and since they found them in a Golden Palace install, they labelled them as being from Golden Palace. Since some of these files are part of the core casino software, they are identical across any install of playtech, but they are always detected as Golden Palace. Since I have a number of playtech casinos installed on my pc, it found dozens of these files and tagged them all as golden palace, which is not and has never been installed. Its not necessarily GP doing something nefarious, just a poor definition by the spybot people.

[Sodax77]

... For some reason, they designated some of the playtech files (like replacer.exe) as spyware, even though every playtech casino will have these same files in them, and since they found them in a Golden Palace install, they labelled them as being from Golden Palace. Since some of these files are part of the core casino software, they are identical across any install of playtech, but they are always detected as Golden Palace....

I agree...

And this is (part of )my wol-post, e-mail from Golden Palace Casino:
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Date:

4/7/2004 5:58:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:

pitboss <pitboss@goldenpalace.com>
To: xxx
Hello,

When you sign-up with different websites and download various programs from
the Internet, it is possible you may also be downloading other programs or
applications at the same time as part of their installation bundle.

Our company is affiliated with many different websites and it is possible
you may have received our software in one of their bundles. All of our
affiliates require their customers to agree to their Terms and Conditions
before downloading any of their products and any software included with
their products.

If you download software from the Internet, we highly recommend that you
fully read all Terms and Conditions and/or licensing agreements before
installing anything.

Removing our software from your computer is a simple process. However, you
can only do so after it has been completely downloaded to your computer.
The full download is just over 60 megabytes.

Removing the Software

There are three ways of removing the software, try each one in order. If
the first doesnt work, try the second; if the second is not successful,
try the third.

1. Click the following link for instruction on how to remove the software:
http://remove.monsterserve.com/remov...bar/index.html

2. Go to http://www.jraun.com and click the uninstall download at the bottom.

3. In some cases, you may also have to remove the software from your
computer index directory. This is easy if you follow these steps:

1. Double click the 'My Computer'icon on your desktop to open it.

2. Double click the 'Local Disk (C)' icon to open it.

3. Find the folder named 'Casino' then right-click ONCE on it-this will
open a drop-down menu.

4. Hold down the SHIFT Key and click DELETE in the drop-down menu
simultaneously.

5. Be sure to wait for the final Delete message - you must click YES, then
the software will be deleted from your index directory.

Keep in mind that our software is not spy-ware, and removing our software
will not remove any spy-ware that may have been installed on your
computer. We recommend that you download an application called
"Spybot-S&D" from http://www.spybot.info and run it periodically to remove
annoying spy-ware from your computer.

Should you need contact us for further assistance with the removal of the
software,
don't hesitate to contact us: http://www.goldenpalace.com/support.php

Regards,
GoldenPalace.com
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This http://www.jraun.com is weird (from Golden Palace answer, go bottom that site).
I know something about registry, but not sure that PTECH-key, usually there is only key with casino name (in Playtech casino), but you find both, Casino key and PTECH-key. (screenshot from last month) :
http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pic...77/Spyware.jpg (finnish)

I think it is update, but i don't understand why they don't contact to Ad-aware or Spybot. And why Playtech Casinos works fine after cleaning?

So why they use these xxxxwares, if casino works with, or without these xxxwares just fine?

Weird update

[jpm]

If they are having you use a 3rd party website like this to uninstall their software, then that tells me they are including some type of malware in the package. Otherwise, simply using the uninstall link in the folder it creates when you install it would take care of it. Or you could use Add/Remove Programs from the control panel to remove it if it were a 'clean' install. Having you go to different websites that need to modify your registry is a HUGE red flag for spy/malware. This is how things like Gator and other crappy spyware require you to uninstall their garbage. Yet another good reason to stay away from Golden Palace IMHO!

To answer your other question, why does the casino still work when you clean out these files? When you first run the software, you'll see it says something like 'checking for most recent version of files' or similar. It will figure out that its missing the files you've quarantined and will download and replace them for you.

[Sodax77]

Avoiding misunderstanding. I don't have problem with this thing, i use my backup-registry-program, what tracking every move, what software make when you install some program. And i have lots of experience of that. And never follow Golden Palace introduction. So this is like "information" to others (and reply). I know these Kazaa cydoor-spywares, gator-spywares, etc...
And i know how to avoid these spywares. Just info