Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Problem with Windows Vista and Wireshark - FIXED1

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:37:39 -0700

The recommended solution is to make sure npf.sys is loaded before you start
Wireshark: http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges#windows

Wireshark contains over 1.4 million lines of code, and it's best to avoid
running them as Administrator or root if you can.

Kordogiannis Themistoklis wrote:
> Ok consider this a recall!!! how stupid of me, first i've missed the
> previous post on the list which i just found!
> and then, i've never tried running the program with "as
> administrator"!!!! Works just fine now!!!!
> 
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> *From:* Kordogiannis Themistoklis
> *Sent:* Sun 10/7/2007 6:34 PM
> *To:* wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Problem with Windows Vista and Wireshark
> 
> Dear all,
>  
> i've recently bought a Sony Vaio SZ5XN/C with Windows vista. My problem
> is that after installation
> WinPcap 4 and Wireshark 0.99.6, when i start wireshark, the program
> doesn't find my ethernet card.
> Could anybody help me with this? Both installations completed
> succesfully. The only mystery if you
> want is in msinfo32 , npf.sys is not running, it's stopped! Even when i
> run wireshark. Could be this due
> to the security features of vista? I've tried looking through the web
> for something related to that
> but no luck!.Another program i've download (traceplus ethernet) didn't
> have any problem identifying
> my ethernet cards (even the wireless adapted or the ppp vpn adapted).
>  
> If anybody can help, i'd appreciate it.
>  
> Regards
> Themis
>  
> 
> 
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