On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > Either you are running a program that will intentionally put the ethernet
> > adapter in promiscuous mode (iptraf, sniffit, etc)
>
> People often forget that VMware also does this.

Really?  I don't get that behaviour on my box...  Maybe some sort of
setting on the emulated ethernet?

> > or you box was compromised and the hacker responsible for it did run such
> > programs to sniff passwords off your network.
>
> Yes indeed!
>
>

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