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To access the SURFboard Web Manager, click the More Information link, then click the Go on to the webpage (not recommended) link.

On Internet Explorer the message states " This site is not secure".

To access the SURFboard Web Manager, click the Advanced button, then click the Accept the Risk and Continue button.

On Firefox the message states " Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead".

To access the SURFboard Web Manager, click the Advanced button, then click the Proceed to 192.168.100.1 (unsafe) link.

On Chrome the message states " Your connection is not private".

This document contains the following sections: There is no risk in proceeding to the Web Manager’s address at 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.100.1. The message is prompted because the SURFboard products do not have an authentication certificate. So what's happening here is that Kaspersky is not properly MITM'ing FireFox, so when FireFox gets fed certs issued by Kaspersky's CA, it's throwing all the alarms and screaming at you that you're under attack.When accessing the Web Manager, a secure or private risk alert may appear on the web browser advising users to proceed with caution. You can see how easy this is to do in a C# function I wrote here. This does not require the user to accept it, nor does it even alert the user that this has happened.

You can simply compile the open source Mozilla NSS package and, included in it is a utility called CertUtil that can transparently inject certificates, even root CAs, into FireFox's trusted cert store. What's cute about this is that it's not actually adding any security whatsoever. Instead, FireFox is distributed with a complete list of all CAs that Mozilla trusts. It refuses to trust your OS's cert store, precisely because its so easy to simply install a fake CA into it and start MITM'ing peoples connections. If that authority is not there, boom, you get this error.įireFox is the only mainstream web browser that is paranoid. The reason why it needs to install it into the OS certificate store is because this is where most software looks to validate that the Certificate Authority who has issued the certificate it has received is a valid, trusted Authority.

Kaspersky also has to install this CA into your operating system's Trusted Certificate store. In order for this to be done correctly, Kaspersky has to generate its own root CA certificate, and generate spoofed certificates on the fly, feeding them to your browser. It does this in order to be able to scan payloads in HTTP transactions, be it in the request or the response. Kaspersky, like most AV products these days, is performing a local MITM against your secure HTTP traffic.