#Avast email signature how to#

Furthermore, Bitdefender severely decreases the security of the connection as you can see in this video at 4:38 or by trying it yourself. I'm calling this a man-in-the-middle attack not only because it follows the same principle as a malicious man-in-the-middle attack but also because it can severely increase the vulnerability of your system if malicious software (the authors of which can't sign certificates themselves and therefore not intercept your https traffic without you noticing) uses your antivirus software to read the traffic. To it intercepts your browser's traffic through man in the middle. What's happening here is that the antivirus software is directing your browser's traffic through a software it provides. In your case, you will see the name of your antivirus software or something related to that. A window like this will be shown:ДЄs you can see, I visited Wikipedia to create this screenshot and the identity of the website is verified by GlobalSign nv-sa. You already see what you need to see but click onto 'More Information' anyways. In Firefox, you have to click onto the arrow button on the right.

#Avast email signature how to#

Then you have to figure out how to get information about the connection. Go onto a https page (like the GMail website) and click on the small lock left of the address bar of your browser. (Unfortunately, the video is in German but you'll still be able to see what's happening even if you don't speak German. Kaspersky, Bitdefender (see next mention of the word 'Bitdefender'), and avast! do this for sure. Fortunately, someone already added links in the comments. People have downvoted this answer and demanded evidence for my claims. Or at least that's the possibility I'll talk about below. That's because your antivirus software is attacking you via a man-in-the-middle attack.