UCheck Classifies BleachBit Portable as "Unsupported" Instead of "Community"

[ljmacri]

Preliminary Checks

• I use a modern operating system (Windows 7 with SP1 or newer)
• I use the latest version of UCheck available (stable or beta version)
• I checked that the issue I'm reporting was not already reported

Beta Version

• I am reporting an issue for UCheck BETA

What happened?

UCheck BETA-1 v5.2.0.0 (rel. 22-Dec-2023) does not check for available updates for my BleachBit for Windows Portable v4.x app. The "Company" name of the bleachbit.exe and bleachbit_console.exe executables are missing in the UCheck interface but I am unsure why this file property is required in order to perform a version check when the Product Name, File Name and File Version are all known.

Here is the output when I use Sysinternal's Sigcheck v4.90 (available at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sigcheck) to check the properties of the portable version of bleachbit.exe that confirms that "Company" is unknown.

Sigcheck64 v2_90 Output for BleachBit_exe Portable v4_6_0 24 Dec 2023.txt

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I am using the latest BleachBit for Windows Portable v4.6.0 (available at https://www.bleachbit.org/download/windows) and have unzipped the BleachBit-4.6.0-portable.zip file on a removable USB stick at E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0.

I have ~30 portable apps on this USB stick and UCheck classifies almost every portable app as Community Only / Portable. However BleachBit Portable v4.6.0 (along with WhyNotWin11 Portable v2.5.0.5 from https://github.com/rcmaehl/WhyNotWin11) is classified as Unsupported / Portable and UCheck does not look up the latest available version for BleachBit Portable.

The Portable tab of UCheck shows the "Company" name for the main bleachbit.exe executable is missing ...

... but the file properties of bleachbit.exe appear to include necessary details like Product Name, Product Version, etc. I am not sure if it is relevant, but the digital certificate of this file was only valid to 23-Nov-2023.

Also note that there are three "helper" executables (fc-cache.exe, gspawn-win32-helper.exe and gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe) bundled with BleachBit Portable that are missing details like Product Name, Product Version and are filtered out as "uninteresting" in the UCheck debug log.

ucheck-report

The attached .TXT files are my UCheck scan log from 24-Dec-2023 and an excerpt of the debug log at C:\ProgramData\UCheck\Debug\UCheck_debug.log for that 24-Dec-2023 scan.

UCheck BETA-1 v5_2_0_0 Scan Log 24 Dec 2023.txt
UCheck BETA-1 v5_2_0_0 Debug Log 24 Dec 2023.txt

Here's are excerpts from the scan log and debug log where there is a match for "bleachbit":

From the scan log:

BleachBit - Free space and maintain privacy (32 bits), version 4.6.0.0
[+] Location : E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\bleachbit.exe

BleachBit - Free space and maintain privacy (32 bits), version 4.6.0.0
[+] Location : E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\bleachbit_console.exe

From the debug log:

2023/12/24 08:29:13:DEBUG [UCheck::SearchWellKnownLocation] Found app: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\bleachbit.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:14:DEBUG [UCheck::SearchWellKnownLocation] Found app: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\bleachbit_console.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:14:DEBUG [UCheck::SearchWellKnownLocation] Found app: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\fc-cache.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:14:DEBUG [UCheck::ShouldFilter] No program name: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\fc-cache.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:14:DEBUG [UCheck::SearchWellKnownLocation] App is uninteresting, filtering: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\fc-cache.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:14:DEBUG [UCheck::SearchWellKnownLocation] Found app: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\gspawn-win32-helper.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:14:DEBUG [UCheck::ShouldFilter] No program name: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\gspawn-win32-helper.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:15:DEBUG [UCheck::SearchWellKnownLocation] App is uninteresting, filtering: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\gspawn-win32-helper.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:15:DEBUG [UCheck::SearchWellKnownLocation] Found app: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:15:DEBUG [UCheck::ShouldFilter] No program name: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe
2023/12/24 08:29:15:DEBUG [UCheck::SearchWellKnownLocation] App is uninteresting, filtering: E:\Portable\BleachBit 4_6_0\gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe

Is the issue reproductible?

Yes

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[Tigzy]

Yes, unfortunately programs having no Company Name / Program Name / Version Info cannot be classified, and therefore won't have community update. That's something only them can fix by putting proper version info...