Web Shield obscures accurate SSL certificate data for websites

Graham, 
We have escalated your concern to our developer's team and they have taken this as a feedback and working on it. 
To know the original certificate details then you can use online certificate checker or similar tools to do that.

It's now 2025, nearly seven years after you said the devloper team is working on it, and this has still not been fixed. Are the team really working on it, or is this something you just say when you want to calm people down without actually doing anything? I keep Webshield disabled because of this "feature".

Graham,

We would like to understand more about this situation. Please share screenshot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361 of that  message and provide us your MAC OS version http://https//support.apple.com/en-us/HT201260 .

I'm using the free AVG Antivirus tool on a Mac (version 18.2). I notice that when Web shield is turned on, when I look at a secure website (https) and want to inspect the details of the SSL certificate used for the site, it always reports that the certificate is issued by: "AVG trusted CA" rather than showing the actual Certificate Authority that issued the certificate. This is unhelpful, and as far as I can see unnecessary.

I can understand that AVG will want to check the SSL cert being used to ensure that it is authentic, but I don't see why it needs to obscure the detail. This means that when I want to check a site's certificate I have to first turn off the Web Shield feature.

Thank you for waiting, Graham. 

This is the correct behavior because of the https scanning in the webshield.

We need to use our (AVG) certificate to be able to scan such traffic.

Graham,

We would like to understand more about this situation. Please share screenshot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361 of that  message and provide us your MAC OS version http://https//support.apple.com/en-us/HT201260 .

Graham, For your info, just in case that you are unaware, you can post the screenshot here in your topic. Click on 'Answer' & then click on the 'Image' [mountain symbol] & follow the instructions. 
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Thanks. I can appreciate that the Web Shield needs to take action when checking https sites, but I don't see why it can't be done in such a a way that I can still see the details of the sites' own SSL certificate?

Graham, 
We have escalated your concern to our developer's team and they have taken this as a feedback and working on it. 
To know the original certificate details then you can use online certificate checker or similar tools to do that.

Hello Graham,

Your Screenshots and posts are visible.

I am sorry to hear that you are facing issue with AVG Web shield component. I have forwarded the case to senior team for getting suggestion.
Please keep checking this post to know about the status.

Your patience is much appreciated.