GUP.EXE HASH CHECKSUM

[vijay kumar]

Hello,

I am having GUP.EXE hash to something else which is shown legit on different websites, this is to request to provide me Hash of Legitimate Hash of GUP.exe so that I can enjoy notepad++ on my office laptop without being worried about its legitimacy.

Thanks.

[PeterJones]

@vijay-kumar ,

Could you supply your ?-menu’s Debug Info? Because every version of gup.exe has a different hash, so it won’t give you warm fuzzy feelings if I give you the hash for the official v8.5.4-64bit Notepad++'s gup.exe but you have v8.5.3-32bit so it has a different hash.

[PeterJones]

@vijay-kumar ,

BTW: another way to be sure you’ve got the right gup.exe:

1. Get the “distribution” checksum list: You have two sources of that:
   1. The official download page for the version of Notepad++ you’re using (for example, v8.5.4 is here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.5.4/) where you can grab the “SHA-256 digests of binary packages” link
   2. or the GitHub Releases for the notepad-plus-plus project (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases) lists the same checksums right on that page.
2. Download the official release, and compare the checksum you got for the installer or zipfile with the checksum listed in the “SHA-256 digests of binary packages” download or the GitHub Releases page.
   • If the checksum of that installer/zip matches, then you can be confident that everything contained inside that installer/zip also matches the version from when the digests were created, including the included gup.exe
3. Extract the gup.exe from that official download. You have two choices at this point:
   • Use it as a comparison: look at the checksum for the known-good gup.exe and for the “suspicious gup.exe”: if they match, then your “suspicious gup.exe” has been confirmed good and is no longer suspicious; use it with confidence
   • or you could just overwrite your “suspicious gup.exe” with the known-good gup.exe and be done with it

[Terry R]

@vijay-kumar
This poster replied to what they started here in another new thread here.

The replies appear to have satisfied them.

Terry