Tag: WIRESHARK

A recent tip suggested that even when disabled the Google Toolbar sends data to Google without the user knowing. After doing some digging I've found this is only the case if, while using IE8 the user fails to restart the browser after disabling the toolbar from the "Manage Add-ons" window. This is certainly possible, but the browser does warn the user to restart immediately after saving the ...

Last week CACE Technologies, creator of the WinPcap packet capture utility, announced its hiring of Gerald Colms, creator of the immensely popular Ethereal network analyzer software. Along with Colms came Ethereal itself, and CACE has rebranded the tools as Wireshark. Wireshark is still a multi-platform, open source team, and CACE's FAQ calls it "almost (but not quite) a fork," because Colms has ...