[WinPcap-users] How to distinguish the IPSEC interface?

2005-01-06 Thread Alex Narinsky
Hello,

After I defined the list of interfaces I need to exclude the IPSEC
interface from the list.  How can I find out whether this interface is
IPSEC or not?

Thanks
Alex




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[WinPcap-users] WinPcap identified as spyware by Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1

2005-01-06 Thread Philip Stoev
Hello,

WinPcap is identified as follows:

WinPCap
Type: Enabler
Threat Level: Low
Author: WinPCap Team including = Loris Degioanni
Description: WinPCap is an Open Source Windows Packet Filtering Library. It
provides low level internet  system traffic data to other applications that
leverage its utilities.

Advice: This software is not necessarily hazardous unless it is used by a
particular spyware threat. If you quarantine or remove all of the spyware
threats from your computer you do not necessarily need to remove this
program. Please note: if a legitimate application is using functionality
contained in an enabler application, removing the enabler may cause that
application to cease functioning properly.
This application is okay to have running on your computer, as they are only
dangerous if a Spyware application is also installed on your machine and
exploiting it. However if you did not install this, or know of a legitimate
application that did, you may consider quarantining or removing it. Please
note: if a legitimate application is using functionality contained in an
enabler application, it may cause that application to cease functioning
properly.

About Enabler: While not spyware, it provides functionality that spyware
products have been known to exploit. Normally, these applications are okay
to have running on your machine, as they are only dangerous if a Spyware
application is also installed on your machine and exploiting it. However if
you did not install this, or know of a legitimate application that did, you
may consider quarantining or removing it. Please note: if a legitimate
application is using functionality contained in an enabler application,
removing the enabler may cause that application to cease functioning
properly.

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Is it true that WinPcap is being exploted by spyware? If so, can that be
prevented?

Philip




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Re: [WinPcap-users] WinPcap identified as spyware by Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1

2005-01-06 Thread Stef
Read again the part of your email, below: could the evil open
source term have anything to do with it ?!? I have a couple of other
things running on a W2K box, and all happened to be open source or
freeware,  coincidentally, and some were immediately identifed as
potentially malicious by the M$ stuff ... ;)

Now - if Microsoft was to develop winpcap, and sell it ... hmm ...
that would probably make it safer, by definition (Microsoft =
security, as we all know). ;

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:29:41 +0100, Philip Stoev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,
 
 WinPcap is identified as follows:
 
 WinPCap
 Type: Enabler
 Threat Level: Low
 Author: WinPCap Team including = Loris Degioanni
 Description: WinPCap is an Open Source Windows Packet Filtering Library. 

snip


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Re: [WinPcap-users] WinPcap identified as spyware by Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1

2005-01-06 Thread {Pedro Lucas-Suporte Netcount}

 Now - if Microsoft was to develop winpcap, and sell it ... hmm ...
 that would probably make it safer, by definition (Microsoft =
 security, as we all know). ;


That said, the security warning is not 100% fake ; if a malicious program
gets running on your machine, the fact that it can snoop each and every
traffic packet that is sent or received using Winpcap (and can send packets
also w/ PktSendPkt) makes such a malware to be a nasty one.
so, if I never installed winpcap and it somehow gets installed, I'd get
slightly worried that some shitware is snooping my passwords...



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RE: [WinPcap-users] WinPcap identified as spyware by Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1

2005-01-06 Thread David Barnish
I am pretty sure that Microsoft's app specifically looks for WinPCap (along 
with lots of other things) as part of its scan. It doesn't say it is dangerous. 
It says that it is a DLL that could allow another malicious program to do bad 
things to your box. I have other packet sniffers installed on my box and it 
didn't complain about those. Probably because WinPCap is well known and used a 
lot.

Thank you, 


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Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:03 PM
To: winpcap-users@winpcap.polito.it
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AntiSpyware Beta 1



 Now - if Microsoft was to develop winpcap, and sell it ... hmm ...
 that would probably make it safer, by definition (Microsoft =
 security, as we all know). ;


That said, the security warning is not 100% fake ; if a malicious program
gets running on your machine, the fact that it can snoop each and every
traffic packet that is sent or received using Winpcap (and can send packets
also w/ PktSendPkt) makes such a malware to be a nasty one.
so, if I never installed winpcap and it somehow gets installed, I'd get
slightly worried that some shitware is snooping my passwords...



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RE: [WinPcap-users] WinPcap identified as spyware by Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1

2005-01-06 Thread Fulvio Risso
Hi.
Unfortunately, there are some spyware (cain, if I remember well) which are
using WinPcap for  performing their job.
Hence, the alarm that comes from Microsoft is not so wrong.

However, I feel there's nothing to do against this problem. Unless
convincing who is developing spyware not to use WinPcap, but I fee this a
bit tricky...

fulvio

 -Original Message-
 From: Philip Stoev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: gioved 6 gennaio 2005 19.30
 To: winpcap-users@winpcap.polito.it
 Subject: [WinPcap-users] WinPcap identified as spyware by Microsoft
 AntiSpyware Beta 1


 Hello,

 WinPcap is identified as follows:

 WinPCap
 Type: Enabler
 Threat Level: Low
 Author: WinPCap Team including = Loris Degioanni
 Description: WinPCap is an Open Source Windows Packet Filtering
 Library. It
 provides low level internet  system traffic data to other
 applications that
 leverage its utilities.

 Advice: This software is not necessarily hazardous unless it is used by a
 particular spyware threat. If you quarantine or remove all of the spyware
 threats from your computer you do not necessarily need to remove this
 program. Please note: if a legitimate application is using functionality
 contained in an enabler application, removing the enabler may cause that
 application to cease functioning properly.
 This application is okay to have running on your computer, as
 they are only
 dangerous if a Spyware application is also installed on your machine and
 exploiting it. However if you did not install this, or know of a
 legitimate
 application that did, you may consider quarantining or removing it. Please
 note: if a legitimate application is using functionality contained in an
 enabler application, it may cause that application to cease functioning
 properly.

 About Enabler: While not spyware, it provides functionality that spyware
 products have been known to exploit. Normally, these applications are okay
 to have running on your machine, as they are only dangerous if a Spyware
 application is also installed on your machine and exploiting it.
 However if
 you did not install this, or know of a legitimate application
 that did, you
 may consider quarantining or removing it. Please note: if a legitimate
 application is using functionality contained in an enabler application,
 removing the enabler may cause that application to cease functioning
 properly.

 =

 Is it true that WinPcap is being exploted by spyware? If so, can that be
 prevented?

 Philip




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