Juniper Networks Secure Application Manager
The software is said to provide tools that enables secure, application-level remote access to enterprise servers from the Juniper Networks client program. You might find the Juniper Networks Secure Application Manager software installed on your computer after you used Microsoft Internet Explorer to access a corporate Intranet / Extranet / Web Email system.
It might have presented similar to an ActiveX notification indicating you needed to allow installation of an Application Manager, a file ending in with the .cab extension.
The installation path in Windows XP is:
- C:\Program Files\Juniper Networks\Secure Application Manager
The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. The main program executable is dssamproxy.exe. The software installer includes 26 files and is usually about 2.09 MB
- dsSamUI.exe is added as a firewall exception for "C:\Program Files\Juniper Networks\Secure Application Manager\dsSamUI.exe".
- dsSamProxy.exe is added as a firewall exception for "C:\Program Files\Juniper Networks\Secure Application Manager\dsSamProxy.exe".
It DOES NOT launch from either common point of the windows registry
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ..... no entry
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ..... no entry
It does not appear in the startup folder.
It appears to launch when Internet Explorer is used to navigate to a web site or intranet page that calls the control.
Possibly JAVA or there is a JAVA version and an ActiveX version, unknown.
