Newbie: ERROR MSG "Upgrade GnuPG Installation"

[Jody May-Chang]

I am VERY new to the whole encryption thing and have been trying to educate myself so I could implement secure email in light of recent NSA internet data collection scandal.

When I open Thunderbird to compose a new email message I get the following error message and I have no idea how to resolve it. I assume that this is embedded in the Gpg4Win executable I installed to create my keys???

“You are using GnuPG version 0.9.4, which is not up to date anymore. Enigmail requires GnuPG version 1.4 or newer; please upgrade your GnuPG installation, or OpenPGP will not work.”

MY CONFIG:
Windows 7
Thunderbird v. 17.0.9
Enigmail v. 1.5.1
Gpg4Win v. 2.1.1

Any help would be appreciated!
Jody

[Patrick Brunschwig]

It seems that apart from Gpg4Win you also installed some other version of GnuPG, which Enigmail detected as version 0.9.4. Did you install other encryption software that possibly also installed GnuPG?

Maybe it helps to check the PATH environment variable.