secure GMail Notifier

As you might have noticed, GMail Notifier uses the url http://mail.google.com/mail to access your personal mailbox.

This is quite annoying for who cares about security.

Here is a simple hack to make it use the secure url https://mail.google.com/mail.
(it works for the Windows version – for the Mac version there is already a solution).

1. create a backup copy of gnotifier.exe (usually in c:\Program Files\Google\Gmail Notifier);
2. open gnotifier.exe with an hex editor (emacs hexl-find-file will do);
3. find the string http://mail.google.com/mail and substitute it with https://mail.google.com/mail;
4. save the file;
5. close any running GMail Notifier and launch it again.

yes, it is as simple as that.