Mail PassView V1.65    Suggested by milentechie - Updated by Checker on 5 Aug 2010 75KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (1482) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (7) - Post comment - Permalink

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 G. Smith: 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 [2006-06-28 03:12]

 G. Smith: I read the program's website and it states that this is a known issue of false positives with certain anti-virus software. [2006-06-28 05:42]

 David Gagnon: 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. [2006-06-28 06:38]

 Angelo Amoruso: Seems to don't work with GMX (http://www.gmx.com) IMAP accounts and Thunderbird: password not retrieved. [2008-05-05 06:56]

 Hugh H.: 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. [2009-03-14 15:26]

 alexsupra: http://blog.nirsoft.net/2009/05/17/antivirus-companies-cause-a-big-headache-to-small-developers/ [2010-02-04 15:12]

 George: When I tried to install it, it did not run. Then my Panda Cloud Antivirus informed me "One virus newtrlized" - it was mailpv.exe [2010-02-04 15:47]

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