My antivirus / antispyware program reports WinPcap as a virus / trojan/ spyware! Are you hackers trying to infect my computer?
WinPcap is not a virus. WinPcap is an industry standard library used by many tools, several of which commercial, and developed by a respected team of people. However, since it’s free and since it’s an easy and powerful way to receive and transmit low-level network traffic, it seems that some virus writers used it too. As a result, at least once a month we have somebody complaining its antivirus program tells him that WinPcap is a virus. Your antivirus program should detect the virus itself, not the libraries used by it. It’s like saying the MS Winsock is a virus because some trojans use sockets to send or receive data on the network. So, please contact your antivirus company and tell them to fix the problem.
