Hello everyone! I can’t figure this out, so hopefully you might be able to. I am using express vpn and Norton 360 on my android device. Recently Norton popped up with a warning ‘SSL decryption detected an unknown 3rd party is viewing/ changing your information…use norton vpn now’. I was already using express vpn and after doing a couple of tests it seems that Norton is only coming up with this problem when I am connected to the USA New Jersey location on Express VPN. This is kind of troubling as I use the vpn for privacy. However after some searching I can’t find what the heck SSL decryption is supposed to be so can’t understand if this is serious or not. Please help if you can!
Norton is basically a scam app these days, they even bundled a crypto miner into 360 when that market was booming. They’re just trying to scare you into buying more of their, at best, dubious software/services.
I have scanned the network with Avast and all it says is “youre safely connected to a vpn” no problems found at all… Norton seems to be alerting for nothing
Thank you for your swift response, do you recommend any mobile anti-virus software that isn’t just snake oil?
Not really, they’re all snake oil to my knowledge. If you stick to using apps from the official App Store your malware risk is pretty minimal anyway.
I’d still love to know what SSL decryption means as it’s strange that it is not replicated across different VPN locations.
Well most of the data traffic between your phone and the rest of the world is encrypted these days with SSL/TLS. I’m guessing Norton is trying to warn about someone/something inserting itself into your traffic and decrypting the data. How they’re detecting this and how it relates to Express VPN I can’t say.
But the fact they’re immediately trying to push you towards Norton VPN raises all the red flags for me. It makes it sound more like an upsell attempt than a genuine security concern.
Thank you, I hope this is the case.