Re: Wireshark's WinPcap Detection

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 04:15:31PM +0000, Rob Nicholls wrote:
> I noticed that Wireshark's installer doesn't detect that WinPcap has
> already been installed if I use the Nmap version of the WinPcap installer.
> I grabbed Wireshark's source code and spotted that they're checking the
> following keys:

Good catch and research!

> If we do decide to create the same keys as the official WinPcap installer,
> it complicates our silent installer (but I can probably add another
> registry value that still lets us identify our own installs).

I like this idea of creating the same keys for compatibility with the
official installer, but also creating an extra key that we (or they)
can use when there is a desire to distinguish between the two.  Can
you make this change?

Cheers,
-F
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