Disabling HTTPS scanning programmatically

[ilcontepedro]

Hello,

we are developing a parental control software.

We are encountering a problem with NOD32's HTTPS scanning, since NOD32 redirects all connections, HTTP and HTTPS to port 30606.

Since we need to redirect TCP connections too, to our local proxy, and we can't deal with HTTPS connections, we would like to be able to disable NOD32's HTTPS scanning programmatically.

We found that this registry key SOFTWARE\\ESET\\ESET Security\\CurrentVersion\\Plugins\\01000200\\Profiles\\@My profile\\HttpsScanMode should be put to 0, to disable HTTPS scanning, but of course the registry key is locked by ekrn.exe

Is there a way to disable NOD32's HTTPS scanning programmatically, since I guess that stopping ekrn.exe is not an option...?
Of course, if there is a legit way to stop ekrn.exe programmatically (letting the user know that NOD32 has been stopped temporarily), then change the registry key, that would be an option.

Regards

[Marcos]

It is not possible. Self-defense protects the ESET registry keys from being tampered with malware or basically any 3rd party application.
Since SSL checking is disabled by default, are you positive that it's actually SSL scanning that causes the problem?

[kerykeion]

Hi ilcontepedro,

This might help
http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2132&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1286833290206

Cheers!

[vtol]

-{ Quote: "we are developing a parental control software." }-would be curious to know whether your https scanner works with Firefox or not, as NOD does not. also, if you are developing something like NetNanny you might be interested in the development of the Chromium 7 browser branch http://codereview.chromium.org/3723001, which will render https scanning obsolete in the future, at least for the https scanners models of NOD and NetNanny - seems they must have a similar approach.

that is going to be interesting for the kids to know how to circumvent just by using https proxies