You don’t think a company with more computing power than any other on the planet would have a few backups of their own?

I never said it was an email client, I said it’s for backing up emails and the reason I say this is because it’s written multiple times on the G-archive site itself:

“G-Archiver is your one click Gmail backup solution. Backup Gmail email messages to your computer using G-Archiver. Never lose another message - backup Gmail messages and you’ll have a stored copy on your computer in the event of Gmail data loss incidents.”

The first 3 sentences from the description on the front page all say that G-archiver is used to copy messages from gmails storage to your own hard drive. But if you don’t believe that, just look at the screenshots: http://www.garchiver.com/screenshots.htm

They clearly show NO WAY to copy files from your hard drive to Gmail. They do show a way to download email off of Gmail and onto your hard drive.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but a bit of researching and reading on your part would help. I am aware of programs that copy files to gmail, but this is not one of them. Perhaps you’re thinking about something else.

Ok, G-archive is not an email client; it does not download and back up your emails. IT BACKUPS YOUR DATA ON GMAIL. So, with G-archive, Gmail is not simply an email account but also a storage space. I think you did not know the true function of G-archive, a bit of researching and reading will help.

Secondly, people are not stupid. Most of us do things for a reason. You are right, why save all emails? But G-archive is not meant for that, so your statements do not apply. And you are right again, Gmail got plenty of space for emails and with G-archive, we can shove more documents in there to utilize all the space provided. G-archive was built base on such a simple but innovative idea. And people would like to use everything that they are provided with. Stupid people don’t do that.

One more thing, do you think that printing an email kinds of defeating the purpose of having an email? Think about it. They are meant to be digital.

Finally, I am not saying it’s ok to steal personal information. My point is that when a product is found to be malicious, we all laugh at those who use the product (and we do not have any background knowledge about the product and what it’s for or why people bought them). The lesson is not “Trojan is ok” but it’s more important to learn that any software you trust can be harmful. And don’t call people stupid because you can be one someday.

Having said that, I won’t call you stupid, but next time, make sure your know what you are talking about before criticizing it. Again, G-archive is not an email client.

Enough said

Oh, by the way, I hate Gmail. But I have it for my spam storage (^.^)

And their excuse is pure crap. Yeah, the developer added code to send himself everyone’s password “by mistake” to “debug” the software. That makes perfect sense.

“Say, if itune store put a code to collect my visa card info, I wouldn’t know either. The thing is that G-archive got caught”

So you’re saying its ok for them to steal your personal information as long as they don’t get caught?

Ok, here is my opinion. I really like the idea (great idea), I used this software once, but Gmail had only several GB of storage (and still counting). Since I bought a new external hard drive, I just stop using G-archive. Also, I don’t use Gmail, I like yahoo mail better. POP3 is great, but still, what is that chance all yahoo servers crash and I lose all emails in my account? Not in my life time, I don’t think.

And, I have to say this every time I post something, please excuse my English.

Thanks, and sucks for G-archive, no matter what, it was still a great idea.

I do kind of trust them about the debugging code excuse. Say, if itune store put a code to collect my visa card info, I wouldn’t know either. The thing is that G-archive got caught, and, and the creator STORE his client’s email user and pass. He’s in deep trouble. I hope he doesn’t get sued.

Crap, I need to stop, well, buy an external hard drive, then no more G-archive.

–Chuck Tomasi
–Host and producer of Technorama, Gmail Podcast, Freestyle, and Radio Yesterday

There is absolutely no need to take a dig at the post author for simple mistakes.

This was more than just debug code.

makes perfect sense!

not a trojan _at_ _all_

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.

The biggest security threat now is that people have released how to get into jterry’s email account… Hopefully he’s changed that pass though.

They say that the stealing of user emails and passwords was unintentional because a programmer forgot to remove that chunk of code from the release version. I don’t know how many people are going to trust this program now though.

I personally use Yahoo premium mail for US$20 per year. It lets me easily zip and archive all my files. And with unlimited storage, I find it easier to load my software up there for retrieval at client sites should I need it. Sometimes I forget my USB stick.

I hope the guy gets caught, I really hate people like this.