Avast generated SSL certificates

I was looking at some certificates that websites had on Chrome (to confirm its SSL security/authentication), and I noticed that a lot of them are Issued by Avast. For example, here is one from the Weather network’s website

Is it normal for Avast to generate so many of the SSL certificates? If I didn’t have Avast installed would some other certificate authority be issuing these instead?

If you Look in your Browser Settings you will see “Your Browser is being managed by your organisation.” Certainly it does in Firefox, my default browser.

In order for the Web Shield and Mail Shields to to operate as a man in the middle to scan content before it hits your desktop, the Web Shield and Mail Shields have to be able to do that, so they need this certification.

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I don’t have that statement in Chrome (my default browser). I have that on my work computer though, which makes sense since it is indeed being monitored by my employer

Regarding the certificate, I restarted my computer and after loading Chrome back up, I checked the certificate for the Weather Network and see that it’s now issued by Amazon

So I guess it can be a different issuer each time? What’s interesting is that the Issue and Expire dates are each the same in both cases.

There was another topic some time ago about something like this, so I thought it might be the same, in regard to SSL certificates.