6/28/2023 0 Comments Proxycap through putty![]() P.S.: you might want to check out this Wiki page for some other socks proxies and socksifiers. a sort of Swiss army knife for socksifying programs. ![]() However I'm happy to have learnt about WideCap, it's a very nice piece of software. This method is definitely not for novice users. thus when the service (svchost.exe) starts, the WideCap driver will have access only to SYSTEM's registry. The SYSTEM user comes into the game, because the given svchost.exe (that makes the connection to the MS Windows Update servers) runs with SYSTEM's credentials. You've to set up WideCap, export the program's registry from the current user's tree to disk (it's HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bert's Software\WideCap for me), replace the registry key pathes with the path of the SYSTEM user's registry (it's HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Bert's Software\WideCap for me) and import it back to the Windows registry. The problem is that WideCap stores all of its settings in the user's registry that installed the application. However this tool is shareware (you can use it for free only in a 30-day trial period) and due to a small design glitch you've to hack its settings a little bit to make it socksify the services running through svchost.exe. It can redirect all TCP connections to a SOCKS server right from the start. WideCap hijacks Winsock (the socket subsystem of Windows networking), thus it's like a virtual network driver on top of Windows' TCP stack. It comes from the developer of FreeCap, but he rewrote the whole thing. One program capable of socksifying svchost.exe (aka. For this one to work the socksifier program has to load before the first service loads that uses svchost.exe (the "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services"), since an instance of this executable tries to connect to MS's webservers, when you start the Windows Update process. You can use a "low-level" socksifier that can add SOCKS capability even to Windows services.free ones are FreeCap, Hummingbird SOCKS client, SocksCap. or you could pick any HTTP proxy and use a "sockisfier" to add SOCKS capabilities to it (there're quite a few. You could set Windows Update with proxycfg to use the local HTTP proxy, and set the HTTP proxy to use the given SOCKS proxy. Windows Update does work through a HTTP proxy, thus you could use a local HTTP proxy that supports chaining to SOCKS proxies.However setting a SOCKS proxy won't take any effect (at least it did not for me, neither for airwin). There must be an SSH server running on the remote computer. To set a proxy for this service, you've to use the proxycfg command line program. In the Host Name field, enter the IP address or the network name of the remote computer you are going to connect to. Windows XP has a "hidden" HTTP service (it's actually a driver visible in "Device Manager" under "Non-Plug and Play Drivers") and Windows Update uses this service to access Microsoft's servers. It can use a proxy server (see one of my previous posts on this), but it won't use the same proxy as you've set in "Control Panel" / "Internet Options" (aka.
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