John Conners - 0% Detection Rate *

Did you just run into a download or a file on your computer that has a digital signature from John Conners? If that's the case, please read on.

You'll typically see John Conners when running the file. The publisher name is then displayed as the "Verified publisher" in the UAC dialog as the screenshot shows:

Screenshot where John Conners appears as the verified publisher in the UAC dialog

You can view the digital signature details for John Conners with the following procedure:

  1. Open up Windows Explorer and locate the John Conners file
  2. Right-click on the file and select Properties
  3. Click on the Digital Signatures tab
  4. Click the View Certificate button

Here is a screengrab of a file signed by John Conners:

Screenshot of the John Conners certificate

As you can see in the screenshot above, Windows states that "This digital signature is OK". This implies that the file has been published by John Conners and that the file has not been tampered with.

If you click the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot 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 John Conners, such as the street name, city and country.

StartCom Class 2 Primary Intermediate Object CA, UTN-USERFirst-Object and GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2 has issued the John Conners certificates. You can also see the details of the issuer by clicking the View Certificate button shown in the screencap above.

John Conners Files

The following are the John Conners files I've collected, thanks to the FreeFixer users.

Detection RatioFile Name
0/55switchersetup49.exe
0/43BackgroundSwitcher.exe
0/46BackgroundSwitcher.exe
0/48SwitcherSetup47.exe
0/46Au_.exe
0/50SwitcherSetup48.exe
0/56BackgroundSwitcher.exe

* How the Detection Percentage is Calculated

The detection percentage is based on the fact that I have gathered 344 scan reports for the John Conners files. 0 of these scan results came up with some sort of detection. You can review the full details of the scan results by examining the files listed above.

Analysis Details

The analysis is done on certificates with the following serial numbers:

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