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,
-----Original Message-----
From: {Pedro Lucas-Suporte Netcount} [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WinPcap-users] WinPcap identified as spyware by Microsoft
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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