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This really should be a top level comment. I was unaware of this as an issue, and a couple of HN posts on this topic got no traction. Thanks for bringing it up!

> As of two days ago, there is a hostile version of PuTTY

A small correction -- from the symantec blog post:

"this file has been in the wild since late 2013 and it was first seen in Virus Total around the same time. However, we have only seen this sample broadly distributed recently. Distribution in 2013 was minimal, and we saw a gap of a year and a half before it reappeared again."

Interesting, this should be in the original article as well! I used Putty a lot until I switched my desktop to Linux full time.

The original article is from over a year ago. It wasn't in response to anything in particular, but it doesn't have to be.

If you see something potentially vulnerable, you don't have to wait until it's been exploited to report it.