Missing Company Name in bleachbit.exe Digital Certificate Causes Issue with Software Updater

[ljmacri]

I am currently using BleachBit for Windows Portable v4.6.0 on a 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 machine. The digital certificate for bleachbit.exe is missing a value for the Company field, as shown in this Sysinternals Sigcheck v2.90 output:

Sigcheck v2.90 - File version and signature viewer
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C:\Users\ljmac\Downloads\Test\bleachbit.exe:
        Verified:       Signed
        Signing date:   4:37 PM 05-Nov-2023
        Publisher:      Andrew Ziem
        Company:        n/a
        Description:    BleachBit frees space and maintains privacy by quickly wiping files you don't need and didn't know you had. Supported applications include Edge, Firefox, Google Chrome, VLC, and many others.
        Product:        BleachBit - Free space and maintain privacy
        Prod version:   4.6.0
        File version:   4.6.0
        MachineType:    32-bit
        Binary Version: 4.6.0.0
        Original Name:  bleachbit.exe
        Internal Name:  n/a
        Copyright:      n/a
        Comments:       n/a
        Entropy:        6.192

As a result the UCheck v5.x software updater I use to check for available updates for my ~ 80 installed and portable applications is unable to find the latest available version for BleachBit (i.e., a UCheck script filters out BleachBit from the scan results as "uninteresting") because this software updater requires a Company name to confirm a match for the program executable. NOTE: Only one other app I use, WhyNotWIn11 Portable v2.5.0.5, has the same problem because of a missing value for "Company".

I have reported this issue to the developer of UCheck (see my UCheck bug report at AdliceSoftware/UCheck#28), but the developer has closed that bug report and stated that it is the responsibility of BleachBit to add the missing Company name to the digital certificate of the bleachbit.exe (and possibly bleachbit_console.exe) executable.