Yahoo Message Archive Decoder description
An offline viewer that can perform corrupted file detection

Yahoo Message Archive Decoder - you are using Yahoo! Messenger and you have the Message Archive (Conversation Log), but you can't read it?

Or you want to spy what others are chatting about in your computer?

Or you are feeling uneasy that you must be online to use the internal viewer just to find some information on your past chat?

This offline viewer can view conversations, conferences, SMS and private messages of any user using your computer!

Yahoo Message Archive Decoder can decode / decrypt *.dat files that are stored in the disk (usually in C:Program FilesYahoo!MessengerProfiles{Your Yahoo! ID}ArchiveMessages) to readable form, without logging in.

If you get the files from another computer, it can still be decoded, all you need is this software and the username of the Message Archive owner.

Here are some key features of "Yahoo Message Archive Decoder":

· Decodes the message archive without logging in (offline mode and no passwords required)
· Easy-to-use interface, no manuals needed for operations
· Supports normal conversations, private messages, conferences and SMSes
· Up to 20 times faster than the Yahoo! Messenger internal viewer
· Ability to decode a single file, all files in a folder, following Yahoo! Messenger directory structure, even command-line interface is available.
· Supports savable and customizable HTML formatted output, complete with time stamps, smileys and font formatting (typeface, bold, italic, underline, font size and colors) and plain text.
· Unicode output, allows display of non-latin characters (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc.)
· Recovers saved passwords (for YM version 5, 6 and 7.0)
· Ability to change any user's message archiving options directly
· Date range selection (to select specific files' date to decode) and modifiable time zone
· Ability to set a password for accessing the program to prevent unauthorized use
· Advanced auto-detection of usernames, folders, archiving options etc.
· Forensics-friendly features such as complete date/time stamping, decoding of .hst files (old archive format) and corrupted file detection


Limitations:

· some features are not available in demo mode