Wincap provides the functionality to place an ethernet card on an NT based (or even Windows home systems such as 9x and Me) into promiscuous mode and read the traffic received by the card. Several wonderful tools have recently come to my attention, many based on the power provided by the Windows port of libpcap. As a Windows NT administrator you should be aware of these tools, and how they are used on (or against) your system. Luckily many skilled programmers have turned their sites toward providing quality tools for Windows. Too often NT admins (this now includes the entire class of Windows machines from NT 4.0 to XP, to 2003 to Vista) are denied tools that are easily found and implemented on Unix systems, and therefore resort to using a *nix for many common security tasks. ![]() This quote is no less true now than when it was written. ![]() With the unix version of an NT vulnerability exploit." Keep a unix box around to use tools such as Netcat or to test their systems ![]() "Why should NT always be unix's poor cousin when itĬomes to tcp/ip testing and exploration? I bet many NT admins out there
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