We are often asked from concerned customers if our installers have been infected with malware, or if third parties have included toolbars and additional download items to our installer.
We take the provenance of our downloads seriously. If you believe that a download has been compromised, please contact us immediately, after finding that any of the following checks fail.
The following steps will enable to you confirm that the file you downloaded is byte for byte, the one created by our build process.
If any of the checks below fail, then the file is not to be trusted; please re-download using only links on www.macrium.com
You can read more about code signing and the assurance it confers here.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms537361%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Right click on the downloaded file, and chose properties and select the digital signatures tab.
If there is no 'Digital Signatures' tab then the file is not signed and is therefore not a genuine download.
Click Details and check that 'The digital signature is OK' is displayed.
Click 'View certificate' followed by the 'Details' tab.
To verify the downloaded file is genuine confirm that the thumbprint matches the corresponding thumbprint in the table below
sha1 code signing has been deprecated. See Deprecation of SHA-1 code signing for more info
Use the table below to confirm the signature thumbprint(s)
| Start | End | Hash Type | Thumbprint |
|---|---|---|---|
15 Jan 2022 | 10 Feb 2025 | SHA256 | c4 4f 37 35 01 16 4e d9 a2 b4 7d a6 71 d8 7c 3c 7e 06 e1 2e |
Feb 2017 | 15 Jan 2022 | SHA256 | 28 2c 3f 64 b5 f3 3f a7 89 cd 23 66 09 53 eb 53 01 e5 e0 01 |
Feb 2017 | 31 Dec 2020 | SHA1 | bc a4 ff a1 19 ef 2e 96 a5 73 e9 d7 b4 aa 35 b8 32 ff 71 61 |