- Why wont free super anti spyware work in windows 10 update#
- Why wont free super anti spyware work in windows 10 software#
Why wont free super anti spyware work in windows 10 software#
Yes, any software that can execute on your system with a sufficient level of privileges has a good chance of being able to insert certificates into those files. This also has me concerned - if Bitdefender can inject itself into the store of certs in such a way that it becomes the "man in the middle", what's stopping some malware from doing the same?
Why wont free super anti spyware work in windows 10 update#
I think that also is happening with Avast users upgrading to Windows 10.Īpparently the installers do update the Windows certificate store immediately so that Edge and IE and Chrome (which uses the system certificate store) can work with the new certificate transparently, but there seems to be the occasional delay or failure in updating Firefox's separate certificate store. Hi creigsmith, I think when BitDefender updated it changed its signing certificate, so the certificate previously stored by Firefox was obsolete and the trust relationship was broken until you imported the new certificate. But it's not impossible if you can get the browser to trust the fake certs. This also has me concerned - if Bitdefender can inject itself into the store of certs in such a way that it becomes the "man in the middle", what's stopping some malware from doing the same? Also, I don't see Bitdefender as the root CA for every website I visit, so why does Bitdefender intervene with some websites, and not others? Also, I thought the whole idea how CAs are chained was supposed to make "man in the middle" impossible. The Win10 installer removed at least one of my programs, which I guess MS knows was incompatible with Win10.) Did FF used to look into Win7's cert store if it didn't find a cert in it's own cert store, and upgrading to Win10 confused FF as to where to find the Windows certs? Or did Bitdefender suddenly start using a new CA cert and neglected putting it into FF's store? (Bitdefender did insist on upgrading immediately after Win10 was installed.) If it's the 2nd option, could there be more problems with other certs? Did the Win10 installer invade FF's cert store and remove just the Bitdefender cert? (A possibility, if MS knows it's used to create fake certs and wants to protect against fakes, but I doubt it. What I don't understand is why it stopped working when upgrading to Win10. Since I am using Bitdefender, jsher2000's description that security software like Bitdefender create their own fake certs so they can inspect the packets seems to partly explain this. Exporting the Bitdefender cert from Win10 and importing to FF fixed the problem. But after looking at other posts (cor-el, jsher2000), and tracking down the CA chain for the certificates that failed, I found that a Bitdefender certificate was at the root, that was in Win10's cert store, but not in Firefox's. (Everything was working under Win7Pro.) I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Microsoft Family Safety issue. I had this problem too after upgrading to Win10Pro.
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