I don't know about burning. It's doubtful that they would, because the point of burning a card is to prevent anyone from having accidently seen the next card to come. Since that's not possible online, seems like a burn would be unneccesary.
What most sites do do however, is shuffle the deck before dealing the turn and then again before the river. I wasn't aware of this; just found out the other day. It's done as a prevention from cracking the site. I'm not sure what kind of effect that has on dealing really - bottom line, the cards always come out at random, live or online - but the extra shuffle before each street would definately cause a difference in the results, IF you compare a live deck and an online deck that start off exactly the same, each having cards in the exact order.
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Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden
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