IronJambo Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I have a Lenovo and recently heard about Superfish and the security issues surrounding it. Stupidly, I deleted the root for it (rather than distrusting it) and now every other web page I try to get on comes up with the above message and my laptop won't let me on it. Any fixes guys? I can't really be bothered doing a whole reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanny17 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I have a Lenovo and recently heard about Superfish and the security issues surrounding it. Stupidly, I deleted the root for it (rather than distrusting it) and now every other web page I try to get on comes up with the above message and my laptop won't let me on it. Any fixes guys? I can't really be bothered doing a whole reboot. Google Chrome? Make sure your system date/time is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussieh Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Thought you were having peeping Tom problems for a minute there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJambo Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 I have a Lenovo and recently heard about Superfish and the security issues surrounding it. Stupidly, I deleted the root for it (rather than distrusting it) and now every other web page I try to get on comes up with the above message and my laptop won't let me on it. Any fixes guys? I can't really be bothered doing a whole reboot. Yeah but explorer was doing the same. I've done a system reset and it seems to have done the trick. Will try distrusting the root next time rather than deleting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcrisps Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 You can delete the cert, but you also need to uninstall the software which will remove the SSL intercept config that used the cert. As you have found, simply removing the cert just breaks web access (most likely for all browsers that use the default system certificate store). Decent article: http://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2015/02/19/heres-remove-superfish-visual-discovery-lenovo-pc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJambo Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 You can delete the cert, but you also need to uninstall the software which will remove the SSL intercept config that used the cert. As you have found, simply removing the cert just breaks web access (most likely for all browsers that use the default system certificate store). Decent article: http://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2015/02/19/heres-remove-superfish-visual-discovery-lenovo-pc Thanks chief! I had thought initially that my system restore had put the root back and I'd solved the problem I created but it didn't. I'd only done half the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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