Wireshark for Security Professionals covers both offensive and defensive concepts that can be applied to essentially any InfoSec role. This book extends that power to information security professionals, complete with a downloadable, virtual lab environment. Mature and powerful, Wireshark is commonly used to find root cause of challenging network issues. If you don’t already use Wireshark for a wide range of information security tasks, you will after this book. Don't use the same password for different websites.Master Wireshark to solve real-world security problems In future, consider using a live linux ISO in a VM (Virtualbox+ ubuntu are free), for anything sensitive, like online banking or checking your emails. This is genuinely the response of most businesses to a suspected infection, it's far more feasible than try to identify the exact infection and remove it (often not possible at all). It's much faster than to do analysis on traffic capture (which may not even reveal certain types of infection). If you think your computer might be infected: back up all your important files to an external drive, and then re-format your drives and re-install your operating system from scratch. I have studied networking at university, and I have a few years experience doing this, and I still look at network traffic sometimes and get stumped trying to work out exactly what's going on, let alone whether it's malicious or not. This is genuinely a full time job that people do, that requires multiple years of experience, and usually some academic background or training in how networks work and how to understand network traffic.

Using wireshark to find malware