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Do I need to be Administrator in order to execute programs based on WinPcap on Windows NT/2000/XP?

April 26, 2017Administrator based execute NT Programs Windows winpcap XP

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Do I need to be Administrator in order to execute programs based on WinPcap on Windows NT/2000/XP?

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Yes/no. The security model of WinPcap is quite poor, and we plan to work on it in the future. At the moment, if you execute a WinPcap-based application for the first time since the last reboot, you must be administrator. At the first execution, the driver will be dynamically installed in the system, and from that moment every user will be able to use WinPcap to sniff the packets.