WinPcap
What is WinPcap?
WinPcap is software application developed by Riverbed Technology, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 50.93% of installations running this operating system. WinPcap's installer is typically 469.00 MB in size and installs around 14 files. The most common release is 4.1.0.2980 with 38.09% of all installations currently using this version.
WinPcap is most popular in the United States with 41.02% of installations residing in this country.
WinPcap adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, WinPcap is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.
About WinPcap?
WinPcap is a Windows-compatible version of the libpcap library and includes a driver for packet capturing support. It provides implementations of a lower-level library for various operating systems to communicate with the respective drivers. Additionally, WinPcap incorporates a port of libpcap that utilizes the API offered by the low-level library implementations. This software utilizes NDIS to directly read packets from a network adapter.
Software Behaviors
- Services:
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- rpcapd.exe runs as a service named 'rpcapd' (rpcapd) "Allows to capture traffic on this machine from a remote machine.".
- Firewall:
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- Uninstall.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\WinPcap\Uninstall.exe'.
- Scheduled tasks:
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- rpcapd.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{6A94A70F-DA5E-4E9D-958C-AEF0E27CCAAA}' (runs on registration).
Software Details
- URL:
- https://www.riverbed.com
- Support:
- –
- Installation path:
- C:\Program Files\winpcap
- Uninstaller:
- C:\Program Files\WinPcap\uninstall.exe
- Size:
- 469.00 MB
- Language:
- English
WinPcap Executable Details
- Primary executable:
- uninstall.exe
- Name:
- WinPcap
- Path:
- C:\Program Files\winpcap\uninstall.exe
- MD5:
- c0f94449e113fa3f7eb420c64108b58b
- SHA-1:
- –
- SHA-256:
- –
| File Type | Filename | MD5 |
|---|---|---|
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EXE
|
c0f94449e113fa3f7eb420c64108b58b | |
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DLL
|
3288f33be7634c85c251b01d2bab9ea8 | |
|
EXE
|
929b7d846b635959201e30b57190284a | |
|
DLL
|
e78291558cb803dfd091ad8fb56feecc | |
|
EXE
|
7d8bcbef11d5a5383d6881d720d96176 | |
|
EXE
|
bd3bea2d304a8b14bb94f37efc1628b7 | |
|
EXE
|
cf7b5eb1d6a17069b2cbfb85a8e7ec89 | |
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EXE
|
83a6c2cafe236652d1559640594a0ea8 | |
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EXE
|
0389e48ead190aac127108c0a637ec63 | |
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EXE
|
c5cd0254dfbbd0aff7aa037d895cf181 |