A serious Gmail account hacking backdoor, has been found in the popular Gmail archiving software G-Archiver. This application, in all its innocence, 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!
G-Archiver has posted this explanation of what happened: "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."
Hopefully, G-Archiver will release a new version very soon.
Link: Details at WinVistaClub.
G-Archiver has posted this explanation of what happened: "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."
Hopefully, G-Archiver will release a new version very soon.
Link: Details at WinVistaClub.
sure as hell never installing any version of this
sure as hell never installing any version of this
I suppose it's nice to make sure that all of the usernames and passwords are being stored correctly, but there's absolutely no need to email that data anywhere, it could just as easily be put into a text file and output with all sorts of other debugging information.
You're kidding, right? And individual or a group of individuals obtaining your account username and password without your knowledge nor consent isn't anywhere near Google scanning your mail to target ads at you, which you agrre to when using Gmail.
Yeah right!
bad for those who used it for long time
Hope it will be fixed in the coming release
Then it'll be worth a try for me
Lets get back to outlook not being crap and the HL2 source code being leaked... Oh yeh, outlook is crap, sorry
And what is your basis for that statement, or the alternative you suggest? Outlook manages my life and business, as well as my universities communication, for us, it is definitely not crap.
1.updated blah blah
2.new somethin or other
3.removed backdoor hack
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