Re: Looking for information regarding the use of Skype in an Enterprise network

[rohnskii () gmail com]

If you do decide to go with skype you might want to add a tool like this one to your digital toolkit:

SkypeLogView 1.05 (Windows) from Nirsoft http://www.nirsoft.net/

They have dozens of applets that a security investigator might want to use to name just a few:

# Password Recovery Utilities

    * Mail PassView - Recover the passwords of popular email clients: Outlook Express, MS Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla 
Thunderbird , and more...

    * MessenPass - Recover the passwords of instant messenger programs: Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Trillian, and 
more...

    * Protected Storage PassView - Displays all passwords and AutoComplete strings stored in your Protected Storage.

    * Dialupass: Dialup Password Recovery - Recovers the passwords of dialup entries (VPN and Internet connections). 
Works also under Windows 2000/XP.
    * Asterisk Logger - Reveal the passwords hidden behind asterisk ('****') characters in standard password text-boxes.

    * SniffPass - Password Sniffer - Listen to your network, and capture POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP (basic 
authentication) passwords

    * Network Password Recovery - Freeware utility that recovers the network passwords stored by Windows XP 
(Credentials file).

    * PstPassword - Recover the password of Outlook PST file. 

# Network Monitoring Tools
    * SmartSniff: TCP/IP Sniffer - Capture TCP/IP packets on your network adapter and view the captured data as 
sequence of conversations between clients and servers.

    * AdapterWatch - displays useful information about your network adapters: IP addresses, Hardware address, WINS 
servers, DNS servers, MTU value, Number of bytes received or sent, The current transfer speed, and more...

    * WirelessNetView - View the details of all wireless network in your area (SSID, Signal Quality, MAC Address, and 
more...) 

# Internet Related Utilities
    * VideoCacheView - Copy video files (.flv and others) from the Web browser cache and temporary folder.

    * DNSDataView - View the DNS records of specified domains.

    * IPNetInfo - Find all available information about an IP address: The owner of the IP address, the country/state 
name, IP addresses range, contact information (address, phone, fax, and email), and more.

    * IECookiesView: Cookies Viewer/Manager for IE - View/Delete/Modify the cookies that Internet Explorer stores on 
your computer

    * IEHistoryView - View/Delete the URLs that you visited in the last few days.

    * WhoisThisDomain - Get information about a registered domain. 

(no I'm not associated with the company.)