See what you broadcast to the world (and hackers): errata ferret

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Hi malware fighters,

What do you broadcast to the world if you are a power on user, there is a tool that will give you insight on these data, download it for free from here: http://www.erratasec.com/ferret.html

Nice tool if you have security at heart,

polonus

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Nice find, Polonus … and once the “viewer” is added to this, it will be a very handy tool. :slight_smile:

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How did you get this to install/run I just get an error.

Since this is a zip I just dragged the folder into, my Non-Registry-Programs folder and ran ferret.exe from a cmd window ?
There is no wpcap.dll in the zip package nore is it in my windows or sub folders.

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Hi DavidR,

You need this to handle raw packets (wpcap.dll implements the libpcap API (plus some extensions) for Win32 systems; packet.dll, and the drivers for various Win32 operating systems, provide a Win32-specific raw link-layer packet access mechanism.). Certain sniffer programs need this dll as well. Remember the program is only a first implementation of an idea, and the wpcap.dll should have been included in the zip.

polonus

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Well it certainly wasn’t in the zip.

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If you are still interested, you can download WinPcap here. You can install WinPcap or just extract the both DLL files with a decompresser such as 7-zip.

As for FERRET, however, I’d just take it as information for the future and leave it this time.

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Thanks.
I have decided to give ferret a pass until it is more mature.