Mail PassView is a password recovery tool that reveals the passwords and other account details for many email clients. For each email account, the following fields are displayed: Account Name, Application, Email, Server, Server Type (POP3/IMAP/SMTP), User Name and Password.
Supported clients: Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2000 (POP3 and SMTP Accounts only), 2002/2003 (POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts), IncrediMail, Eudora, Netscape 6.x/7.x, Mozilla Thunderbird, Group Mail Free, Yahoo! Mail (if the password is saved in Yahoo! Messenger application), Hotmail/MSN mail (if the password is saved in MSN Messenger application), Gmail (if the password is saved by Gmail Notifier application or by Google Talk), and Windows Mail.
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| System Requirements: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract a folder of your choice. Launch mailpv.exe. |
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I read the program's website and it states that this is a known issue of false positives with certain anti-virus software.
This is common with most programs that 'hack' into secured areas of memory. Google "hidewindow". This is a program I would use to see if malware was running hidden and AV programs always called it a threat.
Seems to don't work with GMX (http://www.gmx.com) IMAP accounts and Thunderbird: password not retrieved.
The ZIP seems to have the same 1/25/09 version. Why is it flagged as updated 3/14/09?
In any case, "Virus Total" (a site where you can upload files and have them scanned by numerous tools) reports it's clean. I agree that anything that hacks into otherwise-secure files is going to get falsely accused.
When I tried to install it, it did not run. Then my Panda Cloud Antivirus informed me "One virus newtrlized" - it was mailpv.exe
what about the new windows live mail on a system ???
V1.73
When you download this and extract the zip, McAfee Virus Scan 8.0 picks up a contained file mailpv.exe as infected with a trojan named Generic PWS.f
However I have not yet assertained if this is a false positive given the nature of the program