From InfoWorld: The plot thickens: After Dell confirmed that one of its support tools installed a dangerous self-signed root certificate and private key on computers, users discovered a similar certificate deployed by a different Dell tool.
The second certificate is called DSDTestProvider and is installed by an application called DSD (Dell System Detect). Users are prompted to download and install this tool when they visit the Dell support website and click the "Detect Product" button.
The first certificate, which was reported over the weekend, is called eDellRoot and is installed by the DFS (Dell Foundation Services), an application that implements several support functions.
"The certificate is not malware or adware," Dell representative Laura Pevehouse Thomas, said in a blog post about eDellRoot. "Rather, it was intended to provide the system service tag to Dell online support allowing us to quickly identify the computer model, making it easier and faster to service our customers."
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