This stuff is last week's stuff, but I believe that all readers are not aware.

"Coding Horror, a popular blog run by programmer Jeff Atwood, published 
allegations that a Windows shareware application for archiving Gmail messages 
called G-Archiver steals users' Gmail login details.

The allegations were made by Dustin Brooks, a .Net programmer with a database 
management company based in the Midwest.

In a phone interview, Brooks confirmed that he had used a programming analysis 
tool called Reflector to review the application's source code
and found that the program's author had hard-coded the e-mail address [EMAIL 
PROTECTED] into the code, along with the password to the account."
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More at
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206902839

Original source:
A Question of Programming Ethics
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001072.html

And
http://www.garchiver.com/what-happened.htm

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

Juha-Matti
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