Which ports are used for communication in Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.x?
A Windows NT/2000/XP computer running Symantec AV runs the Intel PDS Service. Intel PDS listens for ping packets from servers. It responds with a pong packet containing information on how to communicate with RTVScan. Intel PDS listens on port 38293/UDP for ping packets. This value cannot be configured.
If the request for the static port fails, then RTVScan will use a dynamic port. This port will be assigned by Winsock on that server and can be different each time that you request a port.
Msgsys is an Alert Management System (AMS) process for generating and sending configured AMS alerts. Msgsys communications uses port 38037 and 38292 for both TCP and UDP communication.
LiveUpdate requires access to ports 80 (HTTP), 21 (FTP) and 443 (HTTPS).
The protocol used is TCP.
The file that accesses the Internet is Lucomserver.exe. By default, that file is located in C:Program FilesSymantecLiveUpdate.
o HTTP: symantec.com, symantecliveupdate.com, and akamai.net.