What is the "pageant.exe" ?

Our database contains 208 different files for filename pageant.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name pageant.exe. This files most often belongs to product PuTTY suite. and were most often developed by company Simon Tatham. This files most often have description PuTTY SSH authentication agent. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 17 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process pageant.exe.

This file is the main main executable for the Putty Agent - a genuine part of the Putty (distributed with WinSCP application): "Pageant is an SSH authentication agent. It holds your private keys in memory, already decoded, so that you can use them often without needing to type a passphrase." - check more info for this application on http://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_pageant

pageant.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "pageant.exe"

Product:
PuTTY suite
Company:
Simon Tatham
Description:
PuTTY SSH authentication agent
Version:
0.62.0.0
MD5:
a244a811d3bcbd4e6dbdae5cb60cda78
SHA1:
2b881ed7c35fd43dfc28f41c63627d8b76220ecd
SHA256:
093fdeff7dd28eaa7b17ae02df713d924668f4af9e7c9493546dfeefdacb831f
Size:
139264
Directory:
%PROGRAMFILES%\WinSCP\PuTTY
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
Medium oc1

Is the Process "pageant.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
Latest new variant of the file with name "pageant.exe" was discovered 4307 days ago. Our database contains 25 variants of the file "pageant.exe" with final rating Safe and 1 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

User Reviews of the "pageant.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "pageant.exe"

  • SAFErating from user ebbe for file %PROGFILES64%\Putty\pageant.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file %SystemDiskRoot%\aJER\PuTTY-CAC\pageant.exe (Variant: 25822803)

    This file is the main main executable for the Putty Agent - a genuine part of the Putty (distributed with WinSCP application): "Pageant is an SSH authentication agent. It holds your private keys in memory, already decoded, so that you can use them often without needing to type a passphrase." - check more info for this application on http://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_pageant

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file D:\Distribs\Inet\PuTTY\0.63\pageant.exe (Variant: 25880876)

    This file is the main main executable for the Putty Agent - a genuine part of the Putty (distributed with WinSCP application): "Pageant is an SSH authentication agent. It holds your private keys in memory, already decoded, so that you can use them often without needing to type a passphrase." - check more info for this application on http://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_pageant

  • SAFErating from user lspcity for file %PROGRAMFILES%\PuTTY\pageant.exe (Variant: 23744367)

    putty agent, ssh agent, safe!

  • SAFErating from user guildencrantz for file %SystemDiskRoot%\Users\mhenkel\Dropbox\Portable Apps\putty\PAGEANT.EXE

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file %PROGRAMFILES%\PuTTY\pageant.exe (Variant: 321244)

    PuTTY SSH authentication agent - module from PuTTY application : PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. PuTTY is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers. More info about this excellent and usefull application on http://www.putty.org/

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file %PROGRAMFILES%\PuTTY\pageant.exe (Variant: 49838)

    PuTTY agent, ftp agent, safe

  • SAFErating from user nomaad for file D:\util\remote\PAGEANT.EXE