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Downloading & Installing Wireshark

Wireshark is a free, open-source packet analyzer used for network troubleshooting and traffic inspection. This content covers downloading and installing Wireshark on a Windows 64-bit system using the default installation settings.

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About this video

Wireshark is one of the most widely used tools in networking and cybersecurity, giving professionals the ability to capture, filter, and analyze network packets in real time. It is freely available and runs on all major operating systems, making it an accessible and essential utility for anyone working in network administration or security analysis. Getting it installed is a straightforward process that requires no advanced configuration to get started. Installation begins by navigating to the official Wireshark website and selecting the appropriate installer for the target system, in this case the Windows 64-bit package. It is important to download directly from the official source and avoid sponsored or third-party links that may appear in search results. Once downloaded, the installer is launched with standard user permissions and proceeds through a license agreement and a series of default component selections, which may include an additional bundled utility. Accepting the defaults throughout the process results in a complete installation with no manual configuration required, leaving Wireshark ready to launch and begin capturing traffic immediately.

What you'll learn

What's covered

Installing Wireshark

Aligned to

CompTIA A+ Core 2
1.7 Given a scenario, apply application installation and configuration concepts.
Cisco CCST Networking
5.2 Perform a packet capture with Wireshark and save it to a file

Key terms

Wireshark
Wireshark is an open-source network protocol analyzer that captures and interactively displays packet-level traffic, used by security professionals for network forensics, vulnerability research, and incident investigation.
Packet
A unit of data formatted for transmission over a network, containing a header, payload, and sometimes a trailer.

Topics

Wireshark Packet Analysis Network Troubleshooting Windows Software Installation Networking

Transcript

I'm going to download and install Wireshark. I'm just going to accept all the defaults with it, so I'm not going to do anything fancy with this.

I'm going to open up Chrome and just do a search for a Wireshark download. And the first one that pops up here looks legitimate, so I would skip any sponsored stuff if there was anything sponsored. But here it says download Wireshark, so I'm going to go to here, and here's the Windows 64 installer. So I'm going to click that and it's going to go through the download process. So it's downloading here. Once it's done it'll pop up. I can then click on here to execute it, or I could open the folder location. I'm going to just execute it, and we're done with Chrome.

So I'm going to accept the user account control, close out of Chrome, and then once again I'm just accepting the defaults with this. So I'm going to go through the licensing and just accept all the default installs, which actually is going to install an extra program here, but I'll go through all of it.

Okay, it's wrapped up, and now I can launch it and get it running. So that's the install process. Pretty simple.

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