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Finding out who is downloading in the Network

There comes the moment when the local network becomes very slow and they are suspicious of downloading in their network. To ensure the normal use of bandwidth, they need to find out who’s downloading in the network quickly and stop them to make sure everyone can work with efficiency. But many just don’t know how where to get started.

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How to detect an email worm with Capsa network analyzer 7?

In networking, an email worm is a computer worm which can copy itself to the shared folder in system. And it will keep sending infected emails to stochastic email addresses. In this way, it spreads fast via SMTP mail servers. An email worm can send lots of infected emails in a very short time and it will never stop unless it’s removed. It will cause a large traffic and make the system go slowly. Sometimes it even makes the mail server crash.

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How to detect ARP attacks in windows 7 with Capsa network analyzer?

ARP attacks also known as ARP spoofing is a technique used to attack an Ethernet wired or wireless network. It is becoming increasingly popular among internet raggers because of its simpleness, fastness, and effectiveness, thus causing severe influence to the internet environment. As more and more people trust windows 7, it is very important to find a network analyzer that supports windows 7. Capsa network analyzer is such a great software that supports windows 7. The purpose of this article is to teach you how to detect ARP attacks in windows 7 with Capsa network analyzer.

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How to monitor network traffic in windows 7 with Capsa network analyzer?

Network traffic is data in a network. In computer networks, the data is encapsulated in packets. So to monitor network traffic is to capture all the packets going down the network. Sometimes, it will be very useful to check your network activity. When Windows 7 network is very slow, internet browsing is very slow, connection problems and high network activity occurs when you do nothing, you will find this really helpful. The purpose of this article is to help you understand how to monitor network traffic in windows 7 with Capsa network analyzer.

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How to monitor instant message activity with Capsa?

The latest released Capsa Network Analyzer 7.2 supports monitoring instant message activity, which not only gives us real time monitoring, but also auto-saving instant messages details to local disk. Whether a parent who has teenager kid, monitoring his teenager kids’ online activities like whom are they chatting with, what they are talking about are of great importance to make sure the kids are safe and will not be misled. Or a company policy requires taking some measures to guarantee the employees’ working efficiency, one of the measures is to find out who is chatting on MSN or Yahoo Messenger about some non-working stuffs. This article is to talk about how to monitor instant message activities with Capsa 7.2 as well as save the messages to local disk.

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Network Monitor: who’s watching World Cup online

To football fans, today is a big day! FIFA World Cup opens today, Friday, June 11, 2010. They will spend the nights with the TV and bears. But our network admins will be drove crazy too. Why? The World Cup brings us great joys as well as certain network problems. Some of the crazy fans will watch or replay the competitions online at work. In these days, you will find your network traffic grows dramatically. I don’t want to be mean with the big fans, but we still have to do our work to maintain the network goes smoothly. How can we figure who is watching World Cup online at workplace? With Capsa network analyzer at hand, that would be so easy for you to monitor network, and prevent the network problems that World Cup may bring to your LAN.

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How to monitor FBHOLE worm with Capsa network analyzer

In this article, we specificlly provide a step by step guide on how to build a fileter and monitor FBHOLE worm with Capsa Network Analyzer.

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How to keep your network away from FBHOLE worm?

Facebook users have to be very careful when they’re hanging out on Facebook because a new worm called FBHOLE is out there everywhere. According to the reports that FBHOLE “doesn’t seem to be doing anything else than posting a message to people’s Facebook walls”. As an innovative network security software provider, Colasoft responses to analyze the worm immediately and we do get some ideas to help keep our users away from FBHOLE worm.

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Google protects your search terms proved by Capsa network analyzer

Google announced last week that users can visit https://www.google.com to establish a secure connection for their searches, which Google says “helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network”.
In response to the worries that search terms are eavesdropped by third party on public Internet [...]

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Packet Sniffer Tips: make use of packet size distribution statistics

The Packet Size Distribution group does statistic over seven packet size ranges with their own throughput, packet counting, utilization, and so on. The bigger packet size may result in more Bytes if the packets number equals the ones with smaller packet size. These statistics seem just do simple statistics, but they also give us important information to help us monitor and analyze the network.

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