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Free Packet Sniffer Software - Edition 2008

# 1 WireShark Network Analyzer

Description

Wireshark was written by an international group of networking experts, and is an example of the power of open source. It runs on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and other platforms.

Main Features

  • Can also read a variety of capture file formats
  • Live data can be read from Ethernet, FDDI, PPP
  • Can read capture files from tcpdump
  • Freeware
  • Requires WinPcap
  • Friendly Interface

Screenshot

Screenshot WireShark #1

Price

$0 - Freeware


Its It is freely available as open source , and is released under the GNU General Public License.
Windows XP - users: If you want to capture packets, you will need to install the latest version of WinPcap, as 2.2 and earlier versions of WinPcap didn't support Windows XP.
# 2 PlasticSniffer 2008

Description

PlasticSniffer is a totally free, compact and portable (.NET) packet sniffer. It supports file logging as well as filtering of ports and IP addresses.

Main Features

  • Port specific tracking
  • .NET required
  • Advanced network traffic monitoring
  • Easy-to-use
  • Freeware
  • Small packet sniffer

Screenshot

Screenshot Sniphere #1 | Screenshot Sniphere #2

Price

$0 - Freeware


You may need to download and install the .NET Framework v1.1 before this program can be run. You can use windows update. Do not forget to un-install any previous versions of PlasticSniffer before installing the new one.
# 3 IP Sniffer

Description

IP Sniffer is a suite of IP Tools built around a packet sniffer. The packet sniffer can work on all Windows versions using either the new raw socket implementation of Windows2000 (driverless) or WinPcap (needs to be installed) or a NDIS protocol (needs to be installed , no reboot).

Main Features

  • Information Gathering
  • Security Auditing and Analysis
  • Adapter statistics, IP traffic monitoring
  • Many Useful Network Utilities
  • Friendly Interface
  • Easy-to-use

Screenshot

Screenshot IP sniffer #1

Price

$0 - Freeware
Edit protected storage (IE, Outlook Express, …) , Decrypt Dialup Passwords , Dump XP Credentials ( MSN, network shares, …) & decrypt passwords , Decode IE history, Reveal asterisks / hidden passwords, decode RDP, Decode MSAccess passwords ).

List and manage local & remote processes.

2008 Free Packet Sniffer


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