Did you just find a file that has a digital signature from Alps Electric Co., LTD.? If so, please read on.
You will probably see Alps Electric Co., LTD. when clicking to run the file. The publisher name is displayed as the "Verified publisher" in the UAC dialog as the screenshot shows:
You can view the additional details from the Alps Electric Co., LTD. digital signature with the following procedure:
Here's a screenshot of a file signed by Alps Electric Co., LTD.:
As you can see in the screenshot above, Windows reports that "This digital signature is OK". This implies that the file has been published by Alps Electric Co., LTD. and that no one has tampered with the file.
If you click the View Certificate button shown in the screencap above, you can view all the details of the certificate, such as when it was issued, who issued the certificate, how long it is valid, etc. You can also examine the address for Alps Electric Co., LTD., such as the street name, city and country.
VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA, VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA and VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2009-2 CA has issued the Alps Electric Co., LTD. certificates. You can also view the details of the issuer by clicking the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot above.
These are the Alps Electric Co., LTD. files I've collected, thanks to the FreeFixer users.
The FreeFixer tool treats files from Alps Electric Co., LTD. as safe, which means that the Alps Electric Co., LTD. files will appear with a green background and that there is no removal checkbox for the file. However, as you can see in the scan results below, a few of the anti-virus scanners detects the Alps Electric Co., LTD. file(s). I'm pretty sure those detections are false positives and that the files are safe. It's unlikely that Alps Electric Co., LTD. would ship a malware file.
Detection Ratio | File Name |
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1/51 | ApMsgFwd.exe |
1/51 | ApMsgFwd.exe |
1/51 | ApMsgFwd.exe |
1/57 | Apoint.exe |
1/57 | hidfind.exe |
0/53 | HidMonitorSvc.exe |
0/49 | ApntEx.exe |
0/48 | HidFind.exe |
0/51 | ApMsgFwd.exe |
0/51 | ApMsgFwd.exe |
0/49 | Apoint.exe |
0/51 | ApMsgFwd.exe |
0/47 | Apoint.exe |
Here is the detection names for the Alps Electric Co., LTD. files. I've grouped the detection names by each scanner engine. Thanks to VirusTotal for the scan results.
As mentioned above, I think these detections are incorrect since it is very unlikely that Alps Electric Co., LTD. would ship a malware file.
Scanner | Detection Names |
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Bkav | W32.Clodc4d.Trojan.7d39, W32.HfsAdware.A9B3 |
ClamAV | Win.Worm.Chir-2252 |
NANO-Antivirus | Trojan.Win32.MLW.cvhyvo |
The detection percentage is based on the fact that I have collected 12915 scan results for the Alps Electric Co., LTD. files. 5 of these scan results came up with some sort of detection. If you like, you can view the full details of the scan results by examining the files listed above.
The analysis is based on certificates with the following serial numbers: