What is the "pageant.exe" ? Variant 17502009

Our database contains 208 different files for filename pageant.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the pageant.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name pageant.exe. This file belongs to product PuTTY suite and was developed by company Simon Tatham. This file has description PuTTY SSH authentication agent. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process pageant.exe.

pageant.exe Process
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%\PuTTY
Operating System:
Windows 8
Occurence:
Medium oc1

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
Microsoft Security Essentials2016-07-06 17:16:00
360 Total Security2016-07-06 17:16:00
Sophos Anti-Virus2016-05-30 17:39:07
avast! Antivirus2016-05-27 05:12:18
Trend Micro OfficeScan Virenschutz2016-05-02 09:28:29
Symantec Endpoint Protection2016-04-22 13:05:56
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition2016-03-04 09:39:17
Norton Security Suite2016-02-27 16:56:03
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8.02015-11-01 14:56:34
Ad-Aware Antivirus2015-09-23 10:45:00
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

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User Reviews of the "pageant.exe"

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file %USERPROFILE%\JB\PortableApps\PuTTY Connection Manager\pageant.exe (Variant: 25481020)

    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