PuTTY 0.68 has been released

Re:PuTTY 0.68 has been released by lupin_sansei on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:12PM (#13701981)

Thankfully Chrome has fixed this issue. I just tried this and Chrome actually warns you about downloading DLLs and requires further user interaction to actually download DLL to the downloads folder:

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/MvRwZBi.png

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Re:PuTTY 0.68 has been released by JohnTHaller on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:53PM (#13702204)

All DLLs or just specific ones? I'd heard a while ago they were going to blacklist specific ones instead of just making it so a user has to purposely decide to download a file.

I'm surprised they finally did something since we've been warning people not to use Chrome because of this issue for years.

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Re:PuTTY 0.68 has been released by Sunset on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:52AM (#13703655)

>blacklist specific ones

Enumerating badness has always been a very bad idea.

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Re:PuTTY 0.68 has been released by Crespyl on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @09:28AM (#13705691)

I'll add that to my list of bad ideas.

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