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11-03-2008, 11:44 AM

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G-Archiver - The Gmail Archiver Scam

A few days back codinghorror reported () Gmail account hacking backdoor in the popular mail archiving software G-archiver(). This application allows you to download and backup all emails from your gmail account. But apparently the developer included the code to send an email to his email ID with all usernames and passwords.

The following is the screenshot posted by codinghorror.

When I attempted to download the software, I found this note () and the download seems offline.

Quote:

What happened with G-Archiver?

It has come to our attention that a flaw in the coding of G-Archiver may have revealed customer's Gmail account usernames and passwords.

It is urgent that you remove the current version of G-Archiver from your computer, and change your Gmail account password right away.

What happened was that a member of our development team had inserted coding used for testing G-Archiver in the debug version and forgot to delete it in the final release version.

We sincerely apologize and assure you that this coding mishap was in no way intentional.

We'll be releasing a new version that corrects the flaw in version 1.0. The new version will be available very soon.

In order to analyze the code I searched a bit and found a download link here:

Here is what I found:

Interesting isn't it?

Btw. Do Not use any software asking for your online account credentials. Not only Gmail but Orkut, Ebay etc etc.

11-03-2008, 12:27 PM

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Strider Founder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: The Last City Zion! Posts: 2,325 Thanks: 200 Thanked 191 Times in 157 Posts Rep Power: 49 @ 2407	Re: G-Archiver - The Gmail Archiver Scam Interesting to see that in the comments section in many forums , lots of people are spitting fire at Dustin, who found the culpit!!!

11-03-2008, 01:03 PM

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bakuryu ƒ(ψ)=Θº×φ Join Date: May 2006 Location: India Age: 22 Posts: 4,221 Thanks: 11 Thanked 317 Times in 290 Posts Rep Power: 61 @ 1779	Re: G-Archiver - The Gmail Archiver Scam I think this was purposefully done !!! good thing I never use any managing software and do it manually

11-03-2008, 01:54 PM

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monstèr Trusted Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 33 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts Rep Power: 0 @ 0	Re: G-Archiver - The Gmail Archiver Scam Valuable info. Beware all using java based mobile apps for chatting!!
	monstèr

11-03-2008, 07:47 PM

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anandk Contributor Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 114 Thanks: 0 Thanked 18 Times in 16 Posts Rep Power: 6 @ 413	Re: G-Archiver - The Gmail Archiver Scam Thanx for the info, Strider! Carried with acknowledgement at :-)