Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] from the past

From: M K <gedropi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:15:07 -0800
I was able to stop the capture within WS, then I went to the Temp folder
and within my hex editor was able to Save as.  Of course, pcap was not
offered as an extension but I typed it in anyway.  Sure enough, it
took.  Then I went back to WS and opened that etherXXXXa####.pcap
file.  Basically, with its new extension, it looks identical to the
original WS capture.  I will now try to obtain a capture with the
password captured to see if I get any closer to determining who is
pulling this info.

Thanks


On 3/24/10, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:29 PM, M K wrote:
>
>> The WS  capture file does have time stamps.  The etherXXXXa file lives
>> at:  \Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp within
>> Windows.  This tmp file does not appear to have obvious timestamps.
>
> The etherXXXXa is almost certainly a Wireshark capture file; that file name
> ("ether" dates back to when it was called Ethereal rather than Wireshark) is
> the type of file name Wireshark uses when capturing - when it's capturing,
> it writes the packets to a temporary file, in pcap format.
>
> Try opening it in Wireshark.
>
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