Hi, Most of the anti-virus installs transparent proxy for port 25 (outgoing) to scan the outgoing messages automatically. How can I find out in general that a proxy has been installed. I need to inform the interactive user of this. This setting must be saved somewhere in the registry!! Thanks & Regards, Ashutosh [discussion@ashutosh.in]
Hi Ashutosh, If the setting is saved in the registry, you can run Process Monitor to monitor the anti-virus softwares processes to see what the registry keys they accessed contained the TCP port 25. However I do not think that you can know it exactly since each anti-virus has its different registry keys and different values. Even if the tcp port 25 is not recorded in the registry, it does not mean that a transparent proxy is definitely not installed for it. Appreciate your understanding that this issue is related to third party software and that generally there is no specification for these softwares, if you want to programmatically monitor and control the TCP port 25, you may contact those Anti-virus software vendors for further information. Best regards, Charles Wang Microsoft Online Community Support =========================================================== Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at: msdnmg@microsoft.com. =========================================================== Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/managednewsgroups/default.aspx#notif ications. Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/support/default.aspx. ============================================================ This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. =========================================================
Not enough information. I'd run the installation programe with regmon to see what registry entries are added/modified. -- Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE -= F1 is the key =- * http://sl.mvps.org * http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp * "Ashutosh" <smbs-msdn@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:OgdvVkr2IHA.3600@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi, > Most of the anti-virus installs transparent proxy for port 25 (outgoing) > to scan the outgoing messages automatically. > > How can I find out in general that a proxy has been installed. I need to > inform the interactive user of this. > > This setting must be saved somewhere in the registry!! > > Thanks & Regards, > Ashutosh > [discussion@ashutosh.in]
