[dayglored]

This is a followup to the thread posted earlier on the first Dell problem:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3364218/posts

because the problem has turned into something even worse.

[dayglored]

Looks like Dell made a number of egregious security errors ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[MurrietaMadman]

And all this time I thought the man in the middle was from homeland security. Or the muslims. Or both.

[rarestia]

I hate Dell, and not because they wouldn’t hire me 10 years ago. They’re sloppy, their bloatware sucks, they have abysmal customer support, and their enterprise platforms are poorly designed. Now this?

If I’m not mistaken, one could very easily go into their Windows certificate store and purge the root certificate store of only the most essential root certificates. I do that at least once a year to make sure none of the programs on my system are trying to sneak something past me. Microsoft even publishes a root certificate update (quarterly, I believe).

[ImNotLying]

bfl

[cartan]

Wow, that is bad! What a n00b mistake! Very embarrassing…

[TomGuy]

FYI

Majorgeeks.com has an eDellRoot Certificate Fix, apparently released by Dell:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/edellroot_certificate_fix.html

[rockrr]

Weren’t we just talking about a similar situation with Lenovo machines a few months ago? This is almost the equivalent of taping your password to the monitor - you know - for convenience ;’)