"Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote:
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>"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.
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>There is no proxy installed. They are hooking the socket stack itself so
>that they can intercept all connections at a low level.
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>> 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?
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>Write an NDIS driver, or use a third-party driver, such as WinPCap.
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>Gambit
Thanks Gambit. I'm probably over my head with this one but this does bring up another question. If I were to use this technique for my program as well, what kind of conflicts would I be dealing with on a machine that has one of these virus scanners installed?
