Wireshark shows an HTTP packet containing the searched text. In the Wireshark window, in the Filter bar, type as filter some of the text you entered as username, as shown below: In the Wireshark window click on the red square button to stop the capture The login will fail but that is not important. But it shows a lot more information than you usually want to know.Įnter a Username of (using your own name, not the literal string 'YOURNAME') and a password like topsecretpassword, as shown below: Every packet sent from or to your machine is shown here. You should see packets being captured and scrolling by, as shown below on this page.

In the Manage Interfaces windows, select the desired interface where you want to capture trafficīack to the starting windows, double click on the interface to start the capture Make sure your interfaces are in promiscuous mode. Note: If you have problems with WinPCap under Windows 10, get the driver from Reboot the machine to load the WinPCap driver Open a Web browser and go to ĭownload and install the latest version of Wireshark. I wrote the instructions with Windows 7.Installing the Wireshark Packet SnifferWhat you need for this task:

Using wireshark to find passwords