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Re: Need suggestions on creating an e-mail proxy

Subject:Re: Need suggestions on creating an e-mail proxy
Posted by:"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" (no.spam@no.spam.com)
Date:Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:59:03

"twistedvoid" <postmaster@twistedvoid.com> wrote in message
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> A number of anti-virus programs seem to create a proxy server on
> the machine they're installed on. Any e-mail program downloading
> e-mail recieves the e-mail after the anti-virus proxy scans it.

There is no proxy installed.  They are hooking the socket stack itself so
that they can intercept all connections at a low level.

>   Anyone have any idea how you'd go about creating a program to
> intercept e-mail on a machine before the e-mail program gets it?

Write an NDIS driver, or use a third-party driver, such as WinPCap.


Gambit

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