Kaspersky keeps popping up a message about Adobe AcroCEF because of a Self-signed certificate

[DumpoJerome]

Every time I start my computer up, I get a popup from Kaspersky about a self-signed certificate from Adobe AcroCEF. I have no idea what this means, but is there a secure way to fix this issue?

[harlan4096]

Welcome to Kaspersky Community.

 

Please provide versions of operating system and K. product.

 

Do you have any Adobe product installed?

[DumpoJerome]

Thank you!

I have Windows 11 Version 22H2 (OS Build 22621.2715)

I have Kaspersky Free Version 21.15.8.493

I have Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Bridge, Audition, Media Encoder, and Camera Raw installed.

[harlan4096]

Can you click in "View Certificate" and in "Details" in Your previous capture and post a capture of the info about the certificate and Details?

 

Are those Adobe products updated? Installed from a legit source?

[DumpoJerome]

I will post a capture once it pops up again. It was popping up every time I started my computer, but it hasn't popped up since Tuesday. I keep all of my Adobe products updated and installed straight from the Creative Cloud app.

[DumpoJerome]

Funny enough I just got the message.

[harlan4096]

In the past, there was an issue related to wpad:

 

 

But I'm not sure if it's the same case as Yours 🤔 probably not...

 

If after follow the steps given in that link, still no success, You can try to go to Settings -> Security Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Exclusions and Actions on object detection -> Manager Exclusions, and there add the application: AcroCEF.exe

[murat5038]

Uninstall Adobe Acrobat and reader.
Download the latest from here:
https://get.adobe.com/reader/

Update your installed browsers. Update your software that opens and converts PDFs.

Perform a clean boot:

Disable unnecessary ones in the startup section.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd

 

[DumpoJerome]

On 11/24/2023 at 4:56 AM, harlan4096 said:

In the past, there was an issue related to wpad:

 

 

But I'm not sure if it's the same case as Yours 🤔 probably not...

 

If after follow the steps given in that link, still no success, You can try to go to Settings -> Security Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Exclusions and Actions on object detection -> Manager Exclusions, and there add the application: AcroCEF.exe

This seems to be the only fix that works for me. I've been waiting for it to pop back up before I replied, and this seems to be working. Thank you for everyone's help.