In this video, I'm going to show you how to download and install Wireshark on a Windows computer.
The process is fairly intuitive.
First thing you need to do is open up a web browser and go to Wireshark.
Dot org.
This is the official Wireshark website, so simply browse to y shark org and then click a download.
You then need to select the installer.
In my example, it's going to be a Windows Installer 64 bit.
I'm going to save that to my local computer.
If you still running a 32 bit Windows operating system, you could select that.
But I'm running Windows ten here, 64 bit operating system.
I'm going to open up the folder.
And then double click on the installation file.
Click.
Yes, to start the installation process.
And now I'm simply going to just choose all the defaults.
So click next.
Now Wireshark is open source software.
It's licensed under the new general public license.
So you don't have to pay for Wireshark, but you need to agree to this license.
Click agree to continue.
I'm going to install all the default components and click next.
I'm also going to add a Wireshark desktop icon to my desktop.
Click next.
I'm going to stay with the default installation directory.
Click next.
Click next again and click install.
So basically all I did there was go through the default installation process.
Now what Wireshark will do is add information to your network adapters.
So at the moment I've only got network adapter to.
So you can see here I've got Ethernet zero network to.
But that will be updated.
I'm going to agree to the end map installation and again, just select the defaults and click install.
You can look at the details if you like.
Otherwise, just wait for the installation to complete.
It's a very simple installation.
Going back through the installation.
Notice this installing mop cap loopback adapter.
So now.
I've got this NP cap loopback adapter that gets installed automatically.
Click next click finish.
The Wireshark installation now completes.
Notice it's extracting a bunch of files and installing.
Why shock the why shock software is now installed and you can see that's completed.
Click next and click Finish.
So I've got Wireshark installed and I could run it, so I'll simply type Wireshark here.
And run the desktop application.
So there you go.
You can see various network adapters.
So my mop cap, loopback adapter and my Ethernet zero adapter, that's the one that I want to capture
traffic on.
So I'm simply going to double click it.
And as you can see now, it's starting to capture traffic.
Now it's capturing a lot of traffic on my local network, including Dropbox traffic.
What I'll do however, is go to a website such as Cisco dot com.
And then in my shock I'll stop this CAPTCHA and do a filter for HTTP.
And what you can see here is I've been able to capture HTTP traffic.
Can move these around.
So that's easier to read.
What's going on?
But notice HTTP or hypertext transfer protocol.
We can see this is actually traffic coming from a microsoft website.
So.
Stuff is being sent to Microsoft.
But notice your http.
So there's my http get.
And then I'm getting a message saying that the website has been moved.
Basically, I'm being redirected to.
An HTTPS website rather than going to HTTP which is insecure, shouldn't be using it.
I'm being redirected to a encrypted website so hence being told that the website has been moved because
I'm going to be pushed to a encrypted website rather than using an insecure website.
But the point is, is that I can connect to the Internet.
You have some traffic to Amazon trust dot com, so a whole bunch of stuff happening in the background
on my network.
But were you able to capture some traffic in your example?
As always, be careful capturing traffic on a network.
You need to have permission to capture the traffic.
In my example.
That's fine.
This is my own local home network.
But be careful capturing traffic on any network, especially a public network, you could get into trouble.
So adhere to the laws of where you are.
Ethical hacking means that you need to be careful.
Don't just hack any network.
Don't just access any network unless you really want to go to jail or you want to get a fine.
Be careful.
Do things ethically.
But there you go.
Simple as that.
To download and install Wireshark on a Windows computer and then capture traffic.
In subsequent videos, I'll show you more options in Wireshark, but I simply wanted to get you started
downloading and installing Wireshark.