
Originally Posted by
superuser
PokerStars client can do what ever they want when you installed it. Basically, it doesn't matter what's the title of the window, they still know what you are running.
It's trivial to enumerate running processes in Windows platform and it's not that hard to find out if you've been injected with arbitrary libraries (hooked).
E:
Long time ago, I created a bot for Microgaming network by hooking their client. Worked beautifully for some time, but they started to add some tricky stuff in their client which made it quite hard. Namely their custom gfx drawing algorithms instead of gdi+, which they initially used.
If you're interested, I still got a nice, super-fast hand evaluator and nice AI. It uses neural networks, which are evolved via genetic algorithm.