Gmail Hard Drive.com

[D-Frag]

i say go ahead and use it, but others may find it not so suitable.

[Kool]

Wow I didn't even know this existed even though I have a gmail account. Very Cool! http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/koolsmiley.gif

[D-Zine]

Holy hell - thanks D-Frag!! Thats awesome!!

[Tyger]

sweet D! i'll be sure to check it out!!!

[Keyare]

Looks suspicious to me. It has nothing to do with Google, and only 12 accounts?? SOunds like an interesting way to get gmail addresses for spamming to me. But then I'm suspicious of everything.

[Kool]

Whoa I didn't notice that. I logged on with my password. Runs off to change gmail password

[D-Frag]

hmmmmm, well ill check into it more then, sorry for anyone who has been affected.

[Allen Harkleroad]

someone need to notify Google about this site. Gmail is a trademark of Google's and I bet they aren't aware of this phishing site.

[Allen Harkleroad]

keyare is right, if it were legit it would be on google's website and also in the news i would suspect. Always be wary of any site that requests another sites login details. and watch typing URL's. I book mark the ones i use a lot like financial stuff and even when i get email from the comapny i ised my bookmarked favorite rather than clicking links in email.

Another good but boring thing is to read email in plain text rather than html, then you can see if the link embedded is actually the same one that was displayed, hard for a phisher to get past that, as well as it protects you from malicious stuf that might be lurking in a html email also kills web bugs in emails. Plain text can't be tracked like html email can.

Just my friendly and protective advise to my fellow GDF'ers folow it or not but if you do it is one more level of protection that requires no maintenance or updates <g>.

[D-Zine]

D'oh!

[Keyare]

I sent a note to Gmail. But they sent this back:
__________________________________________________ ______________
Hello,

Thank you for your abuse report. We apologize for any inconvenience you might have experienced.

To help us process your request as quickly as possible, please fill out the form specific to your situation.

- If you believe that your account may have been compromised, please
visit:
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security1

- To report a message that violates the Gmail Terms of Use or Program Policies, please visit:
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security2

- To report an established account for sale, please visit:
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security3

- To report all other security and/or abuse-related issues, please visit:
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security4

We appreciate the urgent nature of your message, and thank you for your cooperation. We will respond to your report as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team
__________________________________________________ ______________

And none of the forms allow for reporting a phishing site.

I think I'll make something up so they respond the old fashined way: Humans.

On another note: It actually needs to take a REAL gmail account and password to log in (I tried it) - I bet it actually tried to log in as you to test to see if you're supplying a reall account or not. That would count as unauthorized access, I think.

[D-Frag]

Here is the email I recieved from the owner of the GHD site:

We're not affiliated with Google because we're a Thrid party
software provider. Have you seen any of the other gmail tools
affiliating with Google? GDrive? GmailShell Extension? the
Gmail IM logger? none of these trird party solutions are affiliated
with Google because Google does not want to affiliate with any
third party software. They only want their own propriotary software
to be what becomes popular.

People will always be suspicious, I might actually be too, but the thing is
if my software was loggin passwords don't you think that people would
already be noticing that their accounts have been logged into by someone
else?
I know I would right away. I've created this whole website to be a fun tool
so that people can access their gmail account as a hard drive from anywhere.

the other programs like GDrive and Gmail Shell Extension also ask for
your password and no one questions them... They could just as easily
log passwords. But the thing is none of us will, it's not smart to, and
it's
not fair to the honest people who want to use this site. So I promise to
you
and to anyone that GMHD will NEVER store people's passwords!
I know that if other sites were storing mine i'd be PISSED at them
and try to press charges!

so I still don't know how to make people trust me on this one.
And I guess I really don't have to prove myself to them. They will always
be skeptical about everything and they will trust no-one.


the 12 accounts are actual Gmail account invites. over 7,000 people have
used
GMHD already, but out of 250 gmail account invites 12 poeple have asked for
an
invite.


hope this helps


Tim Hussey
www.gmailharddrive.com
www.timhussey.com

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hes got valid points, and seems sincere and legit. its still a cool proggy, ill still use it.

[morea]

lots of typos in that message... that always makes me a little wary.

[D-Zine]

Whats odd to me is he used "PISSED" in that email.

Kinda unprofessional eh? I think so.

[Tyger]

There's a guy I know on another Forum who uses it and he's had no problems. I just woudn't store any important information on their HD. MAybe i'll wait this one out and see what others say.

[uncle carbunkle]

perhaps i just don't understand it. i went to the site and didn't see anything that it explained it to me well enough.

how is this used? could this guy (who seems well-intentioned enough to me, too), not just have downloadable freeware or shareware?

i don't understand the logistics of it, i guess.

[D-Frag]

its like a yahoo suitcase uncle, but instead of only using 30 megs, you can use your entire 2.6 gigs of space on gmail.

[Keyare]

Thank you for your message.

Google does not endorse third party applications meant to interact with Gmail. Please also note that we don't provide support for such applications.

For more information, please refer to the Gmail Program Policies by
visiting: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/program_policies.html.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

[uncle carbunkle]

@dfrag: okay...but i guess i don't know how that works (as i've never had to use it).

i still wonder why dude couldn't make a downloadable...save a lot of trust-issues popping up.

[benjo]

I'm using it and it works great! Thanks for the link D-frag. =)

[LimedDesign]

or you can do what i did! mail yourself an invite and create an extra gmail account to use only as storage. boom.