How to Check the Ports in System

If your operating system is Win7 which is equipped with a build-in port detection function, you could use it to detect the processes occupying the ports (such as Port 25).

1) On the opened "Windows Task Manager", click the "Performance" tab, then click the "Resource Monitor" button (Figure 1-1).

Figure 1‑1

2) In the pop up "Resource Monitor" dialogue box, click the "Network" tab, then click the "Listening Ports" tab. After detecting, it is DBMail that occupied the Port 25 and its PID is 3840 (Figure 1-2).

Figure 1‑2

3) In the "Task Manager" dialogue box, click the "Progress" tab, according to the PID 3840 find the "dbmailserver" process. Right-click "dbmailserver", then click "End Process" to close the process which has occupied the Port 25 (Figure 1-3).

Figure 1‑3

Notes:

If PID does not display in the "Task Manager", you can refer to the below steps:

1) On the "View" menu, click "Select Columns" (Figure 1-4).

Figure 1‑4

2) In the pop up "Select Process Page Columns" dialogue box, select the "PID (Process Identifier)" check box, then click the "OK" button (Figure 1-5).

Figure 1‑5

Remove Unexpectedly Installed CCProxy

As a proxy server software, CCProxy sometimes may be used by some hacker, this article introduces you how to remove CC Proxy server software which is installed unexpectedly. Youngzsoft never installed ccproxy to a computer without user permission. Some hackers cracked CCProxy program and installed it to the PC they hacked. so that's why you can find it on your PC. We suggest you checking your system and install the latest packages of Windows. Here is a way to remove CCProxy.
Please go to system task manager, and find out which program has about 16 threads and the file size is between 760K and 1.2M. Search this program file name in your system and delete it.

Shutdown Programs Occupying CCProxy Ports

Sometimes SOCKS/HTTP/FTP/Mail or others would fail to boot through proxy. That is because other programs occupied those proxy ports, resulting in port conflicts.

The First Situation

1) CCProxy would show which program occupied that port. As shown in (Figure 1-1), it is dbmailserver that occupied the Port 25 and its PID is 2900.

 

Figure 1‑1

2) Open Windows Task Manager, click the "Process" tab.

3) With the guidance of PID 2900, navigate to dbmailserver program; right-click it, select "End Process"(Figure 1-2).

 

Figure 1‑2

4) In this way, programs which occupied the server's port can be shut down.

The Second Situation

Assume the port being occupied is 25.

If CCProxy doesn't show the program which has occupied the port, Active Ports can be used for detecting the port.

1) Download and install Active Ports.

2) Run Active ports.

3) The main interface of Active Ports is as shown in (Figure 1-3).

 

Figure 1‑3

Process:Name of the running programs

PID:Process Identifier of the running programs

Local IP:The local IP address used by that program

Local Port:The local port used by that program

4) On the main interface of Active Ports, with the guidance of PID 2900, we find out that it is dbmailserver which occupied the Port 25(Figure 1-4).

 

Figure 1‑4

5) Open Windows Task Manager, click the "Process" tab. With the guidance of PID 2900, navigate to dbmailserver program; right-click it, select "End Process"(Figure 1-5).

 

Figure 1‑5

6) In this way, programs which occupied the server's port can be shut down.

If your operating system is Windows 7, you can also use the build-in port detection. You may refer to this link.

CCProxy Work With Firewall

If there are firewall software installed on server, or the MS firewall enabled on server, you need to setup firewall and allow CCProxy access the network.

Please create an exclusion rule for CCProxy in the firewall. 

CCProxy Start Problem

Port Conflicts

If you get error message likes (Figure 1) when you start CCProxy, it means there is a port conflict problem. Two applications using the same socket port will cause a port conflict.

First of all, make sure that the installed CCProxy is the latest version. If there is some other programs are using the same ports as CCProxy, CCProxy will report proxy service startup failed. CCProxy will report which program is using the same port. You can open the program settings and change the port in using or even stop it, and restart CCProxy when done.

Mail proxy startup failed

It's normally related with the following software on the server -

•     Microsoft IIS SMTP server
•     Other mail server software

If CCProxy reports likes (Figure 1), you can follow the steps at below to solve it.

(Figure 1)

1. Go to Windows "Control Panel", "Administrative Tools" and open "Internet Information Services".
2. Select "Properties" on the right menu of "Default SMTP Virtual Server" (Figure 2).

(Figure 2)

       3. Click "Advanced" button on the properties dialog box (Figure 3).

(Figure 3)

       4. Select the first item and click "Edit" on the advanced dialog box (Figure 4).

(Figure 4)

       5. Change "TCP port" to 26, and click "OK" button (Figure 5).

(Figure 5)

      6. Click "OK" button on the advanced dialog box and properties dialog box.

      7. Restart CCProxy.

SOCKS proxy startup failed

It's normally related with the following software on the server -

•  Other proxy server software

News proxy startup failed

It's normally related with the following software on the server -

• Microsoft NEWS server

Telnet proxy startup failed

It's normally related with the following software on the server -

• Microsoft Telnet server

Port map proxy startup failed

You need check port map settings of CCProxy if there are same local ports or the local ports are conflict with other software on the server.

For more details, please refer to this link.

Why CCProxy Startup Failed 
First of all, download the latest version and upgrade: "Latest Version". 
If there are some other programs are using the same ports as CCProxy ("Default Ports"), CCProxy will report proxy service startup failed. CCProxy will also report which program is using the same port and stop this program with your confirmation. 

For more details, please refer to "CCProxy Start Problem". 

Backup Upgrade and Transfer

1. Backup CCProxy

Advantage of backing up CCProxy: When CCProxy goes wrong, data could be restored.

1) The settings of CCProxy itself is saved in "CCProxy.ini".

2) Accounts information, filter rules and time schedule are all saved in "AccInfo.ini". You just need to back-up these two files.

3) If you modified files in Web directory, then this directory also needs backing-up.

4) If you want to save the old logs, back-up log directory as well.

2. Upgrade CCProxy

Before upgrade, it is recommended that you should back-up files first.

1) In setting up directory, double-click "unins000" to uninstall CCProxy older version (after uninstalling CCProxy, none configuration files would be delete) (Figure 1-1).

Figure1‑1

2) Set up the new version. Please note that the new version should be saved into the old setting up directory. Only in this way, the old configurations and account information can be imported to the new version.

3. Transfer CCProxy

Before upgrading, it is recommended that you should back-up files first.

1) Uninstall CCProxy.

2) Copy CCProxy directory and paste it to the new server.

3) On the new server, install CCProxy in the CCProxy directory.

CCProxy Upgrading Steps

Before upgrading, it is recommended that you should back-up files first. Configurations of servers are all saved in "CCProxy.ini", while accounts information, filter rules and time schedule are all saved in "AccInfo.ini". You just need to back-up these two files.

If you modified files in Web directory, then this directory also needs backing-up. If you want to save the old logs, back-up log directory as well.

Upgrading steps are as follows:

1) Backing-up the files you need.

2) In setting up directory, double-click "unins000" to uninstall CCProxy older version (after uninstalling CCProxy, none configuration files would be delete) (Figure 1-1).

Figure 1‑1

3) Set up the new version. Please note that the new version should be saved into the old setting up directory. Only in this way, the old configurations and account information can be imported to the new version.

Configuration of Dual-NICs

There are many kinds of network topology environment of surfing the Internet via proxy. Here introduces how to configure dual-NICs:

1. Configuration of NICs

1) There are two network cards on the proxy server, and the one connected to the Internet is called External NIC. The external NIC could be configured accordingly, as long as the server could access the Internet normally.

2) The one that connects the Switch and the terminal is called Internal NIC.

While configuring the internal NIC, please note that the IPs of the internal NIC and the external NIC should not be in the same IP range. Besides, gateway and DNS could be left unconfigured.

2. Configuration of Clients

In the "Local Area Connections" dialogue box, please configure as follows:

1) IP address (the IP address of clients should be in the same IP range with the IP address of the internal NIC of the server).

2) Subnet mask (255.255.255.0).

3) Default gateway.

4) DNS address (DNS is the IP address of the internal NIC of the server).

CCProxy Server Screen Shot

CCProxy Main Interface (Figure 1-1)

Figure 1-1

CCProxy Settings Interface (Figure 1-2)

 Figure 1-2