Potential hackers can also use the certificate and the key to intercept and decrypt web traffic.

It also said that the future Dell PCs and Laptops will not shipped with eDellRoot.

Unfortunately, the certificate introduced an unintended security vulnerability.

Dell agrees that PCs shipped after 8/15 have rogue CA installed on them

Advanced users may delete the .DLL Dell.Foundation.Agent.Plugins.eDell.dll as well as the eDellRoot certificate and safeguard their PCs/Laptops.

you’re free to use theWindows certificate managerto view/delete the rogue CA.

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source: www.techworm.net