Mcafee not updating due to proxy

[Navin Chandak]

Hello,
I am using mcafee antivirus plus(like many others) and because mcafee
doesnt have proxy settings like kaspersky,etc, so i am not able to
update mcafee over internet. Is there any solution to this problem?
somthing like autoproxy for android which can provide internet to
other apps on the computer?

[Saif Hasan]

You can set environment variable in windows . . 

Add new variable called http_proxy with value 'http://user:pa...@netmon.iitb.ac.in:80'

and another variable called

https_proxy with value 'https://user:pa...@netmon.iitb.ac.in:80'

After then your all application will get internet access

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[Navin Chandak]

Saif ,

But Mcafee is still not updating/activating. Help.

[Sushant Kumar]

Alternative solution for mac???

[Bhavesh khandelwal]

how to set environment variables in windows.

[Saif Hasan]

If still not then try Microsoft security essential (its free for genuine windows) provided by microsoft. . .

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Bhavesh khandelwal <bhav.kh...@gmail.com> wrote:

how to set environment variables in windows.

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[Shahansad K.P]

try avast!  it is way better and  you can configure proxy inside it.

[Pratyush Nalam]

Buy kaspersky, it is just around ₹300

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[Antariksh Bothale]

Use something like CCProxy to act as a cascading proxy. 

Install CCProxy. It's a paid thingy, but you can run up to 3 clients even in the free mode. 

Enter LDAP credentials in Settings in CCProxy. Choose port. I find 808 cute.

Now, you are effectively running a proxy server at <your IP>:808, or, for your computer, at localhost:808, that doesn't need authentication on the client side because CCP is doing it for you.

Then set proxy in netsh (Run-->netsh, Admin mode)

> winhttp ↵ 
> set proxy localhost:<port> "<local>;..."↵

Where the ellipsis should be replaced by your by-pass list.

After this I've never had any proxy issues in Windows. And the best thing is, having this means that I never have to enter my login LDAP credentials every time I start my browser (bloody annoying), and don't need to save it in the browser either (either insecure, or behind a Master Password wall, which just substitutes one login credential for another)

[Abhishek]

The easy way out would be to download the offline update and install them manually.

Abhishek

[Chiraag Juvekar]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Antariksh Bothale <antariks...@gmail.com> wrote:

Use something like CCProxy to act as a cascading proxy. 

I think CC does not like/allow cascading proxies. I remember someone facing network outage because of this.

 

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[Pritam Baral]

This reminds me of my other post in another thread here on WnCC.Though I had suggested SQUID, any (cascading) proxy would be good enough. It also contains a link to blog explaining how to get iptables like nat functionality in Windows, through which a transparent proxy can be set-up.

The advantage of a transparent proxy over a cascading one is that even those applications that do not support proxy will work. Though I have no idea how netsh works, ("Does it just set the environment values, or does it act itself as a transparent proxy?") nor have I followed that blog, (Will someone be kind enough to try it out?) I much prefer a transparent proxy over a cascading one on my own system, having tried out both, one after another, in the reverse chronological order. Though technically, a transparent proxy can also be used as a cascading proxy, but the automatic redirection nat provides is so much more convenient.

Regards,

Chhatoi Pritam Baral

[Pratyush Nalam]

Which one should we use? Transparent or cascading?

Regards,
Pratyush Nalam
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