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Comment by userbinator

8 years ago

You would also look at the version number when you check the signature...

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kuschku  8 years ago

The signature is automatically verified by the system — when you open the installer, it either shows "unknown developer" or "PuTTY team" in the UAC dialog. Which is easy to verify.

Do you know the version of PuTTY you have installed without checking?

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