Wednesday, July 21, 2010

SmartSniff to see activity on your NIC

SmartSniff: Packet Sniffer - Capture TCP/IP packets on your network adapter
SmartSniff is a network monitoring utility that allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.) or as hex dump. (for non-text base protocols, like DNS)
SmartSniff provides 3 methods for capturing TCP/IP packets :

Comments: When analyzing a slow PC I like to know if some trojan is stealing bandwidth. SmartSniff will do it on Win 7 easily.

Make Your Own Ninite Installer

Ha, Ok - not quite. You have to download the installers first. I could add curl, extract and delete requests but it's too much work for ...