Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] installing ethereal-setup-0.8.19.exe on Windows 2000 Profession

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From: "John Lau" <john.lau@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:03:30 -0700
Hello,

I tried to install ethereal-setup-0.8.19.exe on my Win2k prof computer.
WinpCap 2.2 does not work.  You need to go to
http://microsystems.homestead.com/sniffer.html and get the
Analyzer_package.zip file which contains WinpCap 2.1.  When I uninstalled
WinpCap 2.2 and then installed WinpCap 2.1, Ethereal worked!

One thing I noticed that may be a problem.

I'm trying to use Ethereal to test whether SSL is working on my web site.
So I went to BankOne's site at http://www.bankone.com/ and tried to logon to
their Online banking thinking they would use SSL.  I used Ethereal to
capture the packets so I could compare their packets to my packets.  Well,
this worked, except that when I stopped the capture, my Norton virus program
told me it had quarantined the CodeRed Worm in a file called
"etherXXXXa01884"!!!

Now I don't know if the worm was on the BankOne site or in Ethereal or in
WinpCap 2.1 or something else on my PC, but that was pretty suspicious to
say the least!!!

This only happened once, and I could not duplicate the problem.

Good luck.

John