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:
- –