Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with self-signed root certificates

Re:Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with self-signed root ce... by krylon on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:04PM (#10616492)

At work we use quite a few Dell laptops.

If I had the time, I would install Windows from scratch on each and every machine anyway, just to get rid of the insane amounts of, uh, stuff that typically come preinstalled on machines these days.

But the only cases where I could justify the effort were machines for our automation people, because those came with Windows 8/8.1 preinstalled, and currently, Siemens only supports their Simatic/WinCC software on Windows 7.

Sigh Does anybody know of an easy way to remove this certificate?

I seriously would like to know what's in it for Dell. I mean, creating the certificate and putting it into their install images meant additional work.

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Re:Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with self-signed root ce... by Orangeair on Monday November 23, 2015 @10:12PM (#10618937)

I don't know how to do it through group policy or anything fancy like that, but have you tried running certmgr.msc and deleting it through there? I can't test it on my computer since I don't have a dell, but clicking on a certificate gives me a delete option in the menu bar. The cert you're looking for should be under "Trusted Root Certification Authorities"

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Re:Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with self-signed root ce... by krylon on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:48PM (#10622645)

Thanks for the hint. I do not have a Dell laptop handy, but I will try to get my hands on one. Hopefully, this can be automated in some way.

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