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 ================================================================== This is the WinPcap users list. It is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/winpcap-users@winpcap.polito.it/ To unsubscribe use mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==================================================================
