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by anthonymcse

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Hi, I have a client (a private investigator) who is trying to recover evidence of Cyber Stalking by recovering emails to use as evidence. The emails were received using AOL 5.0. The file main.idx in AOL is the primary cache file, which may possibleycontain copies of these email messages my client needs as proof.

Is there anyway to decrypt the main.idx file? I really don't need the password I know is stored there, but would like to be able to recreate emails (both undeleted and deleted) that could be in there.

If anybody has a clue, or even another direction I could take, that would be great! If this file has some super duper encryption, that would be useful as well so I don't waste time on this track.

Thanks,

Anthony

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by anthonymcse

Yes, i tried that, but all of the .de websites I tried didnt seem to have real content and dialer software somehow got through my IE security updates and kept trying to dial an international phone number (eConnect was in the titlebar, I believe).If anybody knows of a Verified website with details, that would be great, maybe an exact url if there is actually some details on a website. I did spend a couple of hours using Google to look for this info before resorting to newsgroup support.

Thanks, Anthony

by jardinier

If what you are trying to do is not illegal, then I can't see why AOL Tech Support wouldn't be worth a try. I don't know what they're like in the USA, but they go out their way to be helpful in OZ.
If you've already tried them, or you cconsider my suggestion to be stupid or irrelevant, then no answer is required.

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