Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] IMPORTANT !!!

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:25:02 -0800
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:07:19PM -0500, Maiale, Anthony wrote:
> I just downloaded Winpcap 2.3 and Ethereal 0.9.7 two days ago.  I am an
> end-user-(I just use the software out of the box as is) and this is my first
> experience with Ethereal.  Do I need to do something about this Trojan
> horse.

No.

The tcpdump trojan is, as far as I know, an issue only if you download
tcpdump and/or libpcap source and compile it, using the configure
script; you didn't do so.  The libpcap trojan is not present in WinPcap
2.3.