User Reviews
Wireshark
Wireshark (also known as Ethereal) is a network protocol analyzer that enables you to capture and examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the cap ...
Average of 2 user ratings: 
- Apr 12, 2008
- For version:
- 0.99.8
Perfect but intended for private networks 
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Do not use this (or any other tool) to monitor your network adapter that is connected to a "public" network or you will create a security breach that will leave your PC open to attack by malicious probes because it records all incoming probe/traffic messages (to a temp file), essentially bypassing the protection of your firewall. In my case, I almost became infected with the Win32.Slammer virus/trojan when I simply went to terminate the program after running it for about two hours; however, my Avast AV detected and blocked the infection (thank goodness). In summary, this program does it's job perfectly and my rating will reflect the program's functionality accordingly but, again, do not use it to monitor your incoming traffic from the internet.
Review by: gusimio (26)
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- Sep 03, 2007
- For version:
- 0.99.6a
Great tool for general network sniffing
- Interface: 4
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Ideal for protocol analysing and understanding. It has an amazing range of supported protocols. However, it is really only efficient for Ethernet based protocol and lacks support for PPP (modem).
Review by: johndw (4)
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