The G-Archiver program, used to support the Gmail, turned to be a malicious spyware app that emails the customer’s Gmail username and password to a secret Gmail account.
Google Mail is used to access all kind of services. The only problem, after discovering the unpleasant news, is that most of the users have only one account and those who have AdSense or Google Checkout accounts might lose some money because their password could be misused.
The G-Archiver program is the creation of an independent developer, having nothing to do with Google or Gmail. That who found and revealed the vunerability news was programmer Dustin Brooks. After analyzing the source code, he noticed the spyware system and the name and password of the account towards G-Archiver sends all its victims’ personal details.
After getting in, he discovered thousands of records of usernames and passwords and, of course, his own. He acted immediately, not only deleting the records, but also changing the password on the account.
Obviously G-Archiver had to try to explain the entire situation, but the provided details weren’t exactly very convincing: of course it insisted that the program was not spyware and that this whole thing happened because "a member of our development team had inserted coding used for testing G-Archiver in the debug version and", unbelievingly, "forgot to delete it in the final release version".
The advice is that if you installed the program, you should uninstall it and change your Google account password as soon as possible. Because it is a brand new apparition, the anti-spyware products, will probably miss G-Archiver.
And as a conclusion, even if they will fix the blameless mistake, it is still not recommended to install the upcoming new version of G-Archiver when released. Though not all the messages coming from the web and requesting your password are spyware, caution is needed.
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