Re: Avast Antivirus enables the entire Microsoft PKI for Firefox

2019-05-21 Thread Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 1:23 PM Adrian R via dev-security-policy < dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > Wayne Thayer wrote: > > > > > > That is not my understanding of how this setting works: it only imports > > roots that have been added to the Windows root store, e.g. by a program >

Re: Avast Antivirus enables the entire Microsoft PKI for Firefox

2019-05-21 Thread Adrian R via dev-security-policy
Wayne Thayer wrote: > > > That is not my understanding of how this setting works: it only imports > roots that have been added to the Windows root store, e.g. by a program > such as Avast, or an administrator. It does not import roots Microsoft > ships with Windows. > The problem is that if a

Re: Avast Antivirus enables the entire Microsoft PKI for Firefox

2019-05-21 Thread Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:59 PM Adrian R via dev-security-policy < dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > Hello > > Today, as part of an "upgrade" to version 19.5 Avast Antivirus has > forcefully enabled the entire Microsoft PKI for all Firefox users that also > happen to be users of

Avast Antivirus enables the entire Microsoft PKI for Firefox

2019-05-21 Thread Adrian R via dev-security-policy
Hello Today, as part of an "upgrade" to version 19.5 Avast Antivirus has forcefully enabled the entire Microsoft PKI for all Firefox users that also happen to be users of Avast [Free] Antivirus. They now forcefully set this Mozilla enterprise policy for all users of Avast: