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How to Detect Email Worm with Colasoft Packet Sniffer
Posted by Kevin Zhou in Tips & How-tos on June 24th, 2009
What Is an Email Worm
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.
What Is the Harm of Email Worm
An email worm can send lots [...]
How to detect the network malfunction via the end-point view with Colasoft Capsa
Posted by Willis Huang in Tips & How-tos on June 11th, 2009
Brief introduction about the Endpoint view in Colasoft Capsa
It is divided into Mac endpoint and IP endpoint in Colasoft 6.9. Users can detect the IP/Mac endpoint in the largest traffic in a short time by the endpoint analytics. And also, The system supply clear statistics of traffic ranking(Top 5 IP endpoint under HTTP protocol).
In the [...]
How to Track BitTorrent User in Network with Colasoft Packet Sniffer
Posted by Kevin Zhou in Tips & How-tos on June 10th, 2009
BitTorrent Consumes Big Bandwidth
Based on the working principle of BitTorrent protocol, if somebody is downloading big files with BitTorrent software, it will be a disaster for other users who need bandwidth for business operations as the user will consume large amount of bandwidth, thus causing long time network slowness, intermittence, even disconnections; because meantime the [...]
How to Monitor MSN Chat with Free Unipeek MSN Monitor
Posted by Kevin Zhou in Tips & How-tos on June 5th, 2009
For some purposes we want to monitor MSN chat around the network, for example, parents want to monitor MSN chat of their kids to ensure their safety; bosses want to monitor MSN chat of employees for company assets security and to improve work efficiency by minimizing none-business chat during working hours. You may still remember [...]
How to Monitor Email with Colasoft Packet Sniffer
Posted by Kevin Zhou in Tips & How-tos on May 20th, 2009
Some people may doubt if it is legal to monitor email of employees with an email monitor software (aka. email spy or email checker), but this is not the topic of this article. We are going to discuss how we can monitor email with some technical methods, especially how we can monitor email with this [...]
How to Find MAC Address with Colasoft MAC Scanner and More
Posted by Kevin Zhou in Tips & How-tos on May 12th, 2009
In computer networking, a Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to most network adapters or network interface cards (NICs) by the manufacturer for identification, and used in the Media Access Control protocol sublayer. If assigned by the manufacturer, a MAC address usually encodes the manufacturer’s registered identification number. It may [...]
How to Monitor Internet Traffic with Colasoft Packet Sniffer
Posted by Kevin Zhou in Tips & How-tos on April 27th, 2009
Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks.
In case we want to monitor internet traffic generated [...]
How to Monitor http Traffic with Packet Sniffer
Posted by Kevin Zhou in Tips & How-tos on April 23rd, 2009
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. Its use for retrieving inter-linked resources led to the establishment of the World Wide Web.
In order to monitor http traffic, we will need a packet sniffer (or a protocol analyzer) software. Here is a detail process how we can monitor http [...]
Tips: How to Sniff All Images of a Webpage
Posted by Kevin Zhou in Tips & How-tos on April 15th, 2009
In case we want to sniff all images of a webpage, here is a detailed process how we can do it with Colasoft Capsa’s “Logs” feature. I will take the CNN.com home page as an example.
Step 1. Open Log Settings
Log settings allows us to set up some conditions or exceptions whether or not record some [...]
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