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by systechadmin Mar 5, 2002 last reply Mar 5, 2002

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Can my password be detected when logging onto the network? If so, how can I prevent this?

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by joseph moore Mar 5, 2002

If someone is running a sniffer on your network, capturing packets, then it is possible.
On a Windows network, you can grab the SMB packets (server message blocks) and it is possible to find the passwords in there.
Here is a Technet article on SMBsigning, which makes it harder for SMB to be read:
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q161372
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by systechadmin Mar 5, 2002

Thank you. Is there a way to detect if someone is using the Sniffer?

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