How to add the Kaspersky root certificate to the Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird certificate storage

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With the help of the root certificate the Kaspersky application deciphers and analyzes the encrypted traffic. The root certificate is added to the OS certificate storage upon the application installation.

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird use their own certificate storage. To avoid errors related to the control of encrypted traffic, the Kaspersky application reconfigures Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird to make them use not theirs storages but the system certificate storage as well. If you disable this option in the application settings, add the Kaspersky root certificate to the Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird certificate storage manually. Otherwise the applications will be unable to open HTTPS-pages.

 

How to add the Kaspersky root certificate to the Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird certificate storage

  1. Open Control Panel. For instructions, see Microsoft Help page.
  2. Open Internet Options.
  3. Go to the Content tab and click Certificates.

Opening the system certificate storage

  1. Go to the Trusted Root Certificate Authorities tab, select the Kaspersky root certificate and click Export.

Opening the Export Wizard for adding the Kaspersky root certificate

  1. Finish the export with the help of the Certificate Export Wizard.
    1. Click Next → Next.
    2. In the File name field, enter the full path to the folder to which you want to export the certificate. Enter any name for the file with the .cer extension. For example: С:\Users\Administrator\Documents\exported_certificate.cer
    3. Click Next.
    4. Exporting the Kaspersky root certificate
    1. Click Done.
  2. Open Mozilla Firefox.
  3. Click Open menu button in Mozilla Firefox→ Options.

Opening Mozilla Firefox settings

  1. Open Privacy and Security, scroll down and click View Certificates.

Going to the viewing the Mozilla Firefox certificate storage

  1. Go to the Authorities tab and click Import.

Going to the importing the root certificate to the Mozilla Firefox certificate storage

  1. Select the certificate you got at step 5.
  2. Select Trust this CA to identify websites and Trust this CA to identify email users. Click OK.

Importing the root certificate to the Mozilla Firefox certificate storage

The Kaspersky root certificate will be imported to the Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird storage.

 

How to reconfigure Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird to make them use the system certificate storage

  1. In the Mozilla Firefox address bar, enter about:config.
  2. Click Accept the Risk and Continue.

About:config command in Mozilla Firefox

  1. In the search field, enter security.enterprise_roots.enabled.
  2. Click Toggle button in Mozilla Firefoxto toggle the value to true.

Setting the value security.enterprise_roots.enabled to true in Mozilla Firefox

  1. Make sure that the value of the string is true.

Checking the value security.enterprise_roots.enabled in Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird will be reconfigured to use the system certificate storage.

Source : Official Kaspersky Brand
Editor by : BEST Antivirus KBS Team

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