Background: I have a web host that I use to host random experiments. As I didn’t feel like paying money to get an SSL certificate, I used openssl to generate a CA certificate and then signed a certificate for the server. While the CA certificate is (obviously) not shipped with anything, when imported and trusted in firefox, the issuer chain checks out and everything works.
Before the 2015 update, I had just imported the CA certificate into firefox and gone about my business. Now, however, Avast doesn’t have the CA certificate for scanning and gives firefox the untrusted cert, causing firefox to give me the ‘untrusted connection’ page. What I would like to do is import the CA certificate into Avast so that I don’t have to add exceptions in firefox, but I wasn’t able to find any way to do that in the settings UI.
Is there any way to get Avast to trust an arbitrary certificate authority (in this case, mine) ?