Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online

Since a large portion of the MQ community uses PuTTY to connect to their remote servers, please be careful where you download PuTTY from. Here is an article about a malicious version of PuTTY:
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3041

The bottom-line is that you should ONLY be downloading PuTTY from the author’s web site at:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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