July 2, 2009 - Capsa Packet Sniffer 6.9 R2 Now Fully Compatible with Windows 7
We are pleased to announce a new version of its flagship product - Capsa Packet Sniffer. The latest release Capsa 6.9 R2 is now fully compatible with the current Windows 7 32bit and 64bit Edition, satisfying the users' growing need for Windows 7 compatibility.
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July 1, 2009 - Capsa 6.9 R2 is Coming Very Soon
We are going to release Capsa 6.9 R2 very soon, stay close.
June 21, 2009 - Capsa Enterprise Edition Recently Reviewd by Keylogger.org
We are happy to see that keyloggers.org, which has a special appetite in reviewing and testing monitoring software, recently tested and reviewed Capsa Enterprise Edition, also gave it a very favorable comment.
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June 18, 2009 - Get Colasoft MAC Scanner Pro Edition For Free, Act Now!
Are you ready for this? We are. Say goodbye to the Free edition and get your license key for the Pro edition immediately!
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une 15, 2009 - Upcoming: Get MAC Scanner Pro Edition For Free!
Good news for the users who need advanced features in MAC Scanner Pro:
Later this month we'll announce an event which users can get MAC Scanner Pro (market price $99) completely Free.
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May 15, 2009 - 10% Discount Only In May, New Coupon Code Released!
Colasoft is saving you from financial crisis!
10% off discount for Colasoft Network Analyzer
Save at least $55 to purchase Capsa in May!
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May 7, 2009 - UGI Monitors & Analyzes Networks with Colasoft's Network Analyzer Software
Following giant customers like AIRBUS, IBM, INTEL, PEPSI, PHILIPS, UGI now becomes another Colasoft's big customer. UGI will deploy Colasoft Network Analyzer to whole company computer network, to analyze network problems, detect network intrusion attempts, and gain information for effecting a network intrusion, monitor network usage, gather and report network statistics, filter suspect content fromLearn More..
March 30, 2009 - New Partner: Horus-Net GmbH & Co. KG in Remagen, Germany
We are glad to announce that HorusNet, a data communication specialist company whose core competence lies in the analysis and evaluation of measurement data (for LAN, WLAN or VoIP-specific projects), recently becomes our distributer of Colasoft software products in Germany.
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March 23, 2009 - New Partner: Kaltron Security LTD in Nicosia, Cyprus
We are glad to announce that Kaltron Security LTD, an information technology solutions company headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus, recently becomes a Silver Reseller of Colasoft software products in Cyprus & Greece regions.
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March 3, 2009 - Mozambique, Colasoft Network Analyzer Enters a New Market
link - Sistemas de Informa??o, Lda., a company focused on the implementation of solutions based on Internet platform, has purchased Capsa to add value to its business and increase work efficiency. This means Colasoft enters a new market with is high-performance yet cost-effective network analyzer software products.
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January 6, 2009 - Colasoft Official Blog Newly Released!
We are glad to announce that we've launched Colasoft official blog for improving users' experience, stay close with us for the latest company news & events, tips and howtos.
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Nov 14, 2008 - Colasoft Winter Promotion Now's Back!
We are pleased to launch our winter promotion campaign again. During this winter (from Nov 14, t0 Dec 24), if you purchased our best seller - Capsa Enterprise with 1 year maintenance (product id:180518), you can get one additional year free maintenance immediately, which means you can always upgrade your Capsa to the latest version in future 2 years.
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Oct 21, 2008 - Colasoft Packet Sniffer Now Supports ISL and FCoE
Colasoft has released Capsa 6.9, packet sniffer software designed for network monitoring and troubleshooting purpose.
Colasoft, a dedicator in network analysis field, recently released version 6.9 of its flagship product - Capsa, a packet sniffer software designed for network monitoring and troubleshooting purpose. Two new protocols, Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) now can be recognized and decoded. This latest version also improved user's experience based on user's feedbacks.
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Sep 26, 2008 - Airbus Chooses Colasoft Packet Sniffer on Their Recent Project

After successfully passing Airbus test on their test platform on one recent project, Colasoft Capsa Enterprise Edition was chose by Airbus to be the packet sniffer on the project for network monitoring and debugging purposes.
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Sep 24, 2008 - New Client: First Inland Bank PIc(FinBank PLC)
First Inland Bank, which is the largest native bank in Nigeria, who's offering a wide range of banking products and financial services to corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels, specialized subsidiaries and affiliates in the areas of Investment Banking, Retail Banking and Private Banking, has transformed to FinBank for its growth projections.
They chose Colasoft Capsa 6.8 Enterprise Edition to improve the network management & security.
July 07, 2008 - Colasoft Capsa 6.8 Newly Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Capsa 6.8. The latest version supports customizing packet saving length and viewing IP geographic information. In addition, a new dock window is available for quick connecting Colasoft online resources; 4 new protocol decoders are now added, including Bittorrent, Emule, MSSQL, and TNS. New features and improvements of version 6.8 include:
New Features:
New Option for "Auto save packet file" in General Settings to specify the length of each packet to be saved.
New GEO column in Endpoint View.
New dock window for "Online Resources".
New protocols decoder supported: Bittorrent, Emule, MSSQL, TNS.
Improvements:
Updated the lib for National IP Address information.
Improved the DNS analysis modules.
Bug fixed:
When the program is not running, openning unsupported packet file by double click may cause incorrect value under count value in Summary View and Diagnosis view.
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May 08, 2008 MAC Scanner Pro 2.2 Newly Released
Two months later after we first released MAC Scanner Pro 2.1, we are pleased to announce the release of the upgraded version, MAC Scanner Pro 2.2. In the past two months we have received many valuable suggestions and feedbacks from our MAC Scanner users. According to these suggestions and feedbacks, we've made following improvements in this new release:
New Features:
Supports scanning workgroup information of IP hosts.
Add workgroup property in host database.
Improvements:
The scan and database view can now be sorted by network adapter manufacturer.
Bug fixed:
Sorting by 'MAC Address' is incorrect.
Print and print preview function always disabled due to a bug in update command UI routine.
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March 03, 2008 MAC Scanner Pro 2.1 Newly Released
We are pleased to announce the release of MAC Scanner 2.1 Pro, a network tool for scanning MAC address and IP address in a local network, meaning MAC Scanner Pro eventually comes public.
Last Christmas we provided MAC Scanner 2.0 Pro as special gift for Colasoft existing customers. From then on we have received warm requests for a public version of MAC Scanner Pro from Colasoft network tools fans. In responding to these requests, we are pleased to release MAC Scanner Pro 2.1 which supports customizing scan range, editing scan results, database maintenance, automatic comparison, and so on. Main features of this version include:
- Support customizing scan range
- Support adding scan results into database as database records
- Support editing scan records in database
- Automatically compares scan results with database records
- Supports adding scan results or database records to Colasoft Capsa Name Table
- Supports exporting results as Colasoft Capsa Name Table file
- Supports print and print preview
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Feb 21, 2008 Colasoft Capsa 6.7 Newly Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Colasoft Capsa 6.7. In this version 110 new protocols are now supported, including Time, Nameserver, Tacacs, Xns-time, JE, Discard, Systat, Qotd, MSP, Daytime, Msg-auth, Auditd, Ni-ftp, MPM, MPM-snd, Re-mail-ck and so on, which means that Colasoft Capsa now supports more than 300 network protocols. In addtion, six new protocol decoders including GGP, ISMP, IGRP, EIGRP, CDP, and CGMP are added. Major improvements of version 6.7 include:
New Features:
- 110 new protocols supported, including Time, Nameserver, Tacacs, Xns-time, JE, Discard, Systat, Qotd, MSP, Daytime, Msg-auth, Auditd, Ni-ftp, MPM, MPM-snd, Re-mail-ck, La-maint, XNS-ch, XNS-auth, XNS-mail, Tacacs-ds, Mit-ml-dev, CTF, NPP, DCP, Supdup, Swift-rvf, Tacnews, Mcidas, Pwdgen, Cisco-fna, Cisco-tna, Cisco-sys, Statsrv, Emfis-data, Emfis-cntl, GGP, HMP, PRM, RDP, IRTP, NETBLT, DCCP, IDPR, DDP, SDRP, IDRP, DSR, NARP, TLSP, PVP, SMP, PTP, CRTP, CRUDP, PIPE, FC, SPS, SNP, ISO-TP4, SKIP, CFTP, EIGRP Hello, EIGRP Query, EIGRP Reply, EIGRP Update, Login, Who, Yahoo Messenger, X-Window, ISMP, UMA, ISO-TP0, ISO-IP, BFTP, SGMP, SGMP-traps, NAMP, Send, RIS, MPP, CDC, Http-mgmt, PIP, Rtsps, Pdap, NSRMP, RSVP_tunnel, IBM-app, SNPP, RCP, NMSP, IDFP, SCC Security, Submission, Password-chg, SMIP, XDAS, CFS, RAMP, ACNET, Sflow, CRIP, TRIP, Mnet-discovery, Rwhois, SCCP, Citrix ICA, Rexec, Biff, RTP with VLC.
- Support decoding GGP, ISMP, IGRP, EIGRP, CDP, CGMP.
Bug Fixed:
- DHCP decoder may cause program hang when decoding certain DHCP packets.
- On Windows x64 platform, cannot start capture due to packet buffer size validation failure if available physical system memory larger than 2GB.
Colasoft Moves into South Chengdu Hi-Tech Plaza
January 15, 2008 - As the original office cannot satisfy the needs of the fast developing Colasoft Company, we have moved our office to the South Chengdu Hi-Tech Plaza, a dedicated software development base and digital entertainment research center.
After we moved into the new office, we are ready for the even faster development and providing better services to our customers.

Our contact information is changed to:
Mail Address:
10/F, Bld.5, South Chengdu Hi-Tech Plaza
399 West Fanxiong Avenue, Hi-Tech Zone
Chengdu 610041
P. R. China
Pre-Sales Toll Free:
+1 888-467-2634 (USA)
Monday - Friday 9:00 - 17:00 (Pacific standard time, except holidays)
Corporate HQ Telephone:
+86 28-85315892 (China)
Monday - Friday 9:00 - 17:30 (GMT + 8 hours)
FAX:
+86 28-85315892
Dec 10, 2007 Colasoft Official Support Forum Launched
In order to provide better customer services and establish a platform where customers can get together and discuss our products, we launched our official support forum at Wilders Security Forums.
Wilders Security Forums is self-funded and non-profit website dedicated in network and computer security. There are also some official support forums of other companies concerning network and computer security.
Now you can sign up and login at Wilders Security Forums to ask for our services and discuss our products with other users in our official support forum or read other beneficial threads.
Before you make a post, please make sure you have carefully read and accepted Wilders Security Forums Terms Of Service. Purchase of a licensed product, with or without maintenance agreements, does not ensure access to the forum resources.
Please understand that we may not be able to respond to your posts immediately due to time zone differences.
Special thanks to all staff of Wilders Security Forums.
Go to offical support forum
Dec 4, 2007 X'mas Free Gift - MAC Scanner 2.0 Pro
Dear customers, in order to thank you for your long term support and celebrate the incoming Christmas, Colasoft is now giving away our Christmas free gift - Colasoft MAC Scanner 2.0 Pro. It is a scan tool used for scanning IP address and MAC address in a local network, helping you create and maintain a list of company network assets and quickly locate a certain host.
For existing customers who have an active maintenance contract for Colasoft Capsa, you can download and enjoy this free gift right now!
For existing customers who haven' t purchased maintenance for Colasoft Capsa or the maintenance period has expired, you can purchase the renewal maintenance to enjoy this free gift as well as our regular beneficial update!
For new customers, you can purchase Colasoft Capsa now to enjoy this free gift!
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Nov 5, 2007 Colasoft Capsa 6.6 Newly Released
In responding user's warm request, Colasoft Co., Ltd has released Capsa 6.6. The latest version supports Windows Vista x64 Edition, meaning Capsa now supports all around Windows versions from Windows 2000 to Windows Vista (both 32-bit and 64-bit editions). In addition, 15 new protocols are now supported, including Tunnel, Echo, CMIP-Agent, and so on.
New Features:
Support Windows Vista 64-bit Edition.
15 new protocols supported: Tunnel, Echo, CMIP-Agent, CMIP-Man, SFTP, RAP, RLP, Radius, Radius-acct, Radius-dynauth, eMule, PPlive, SShell, Kerberos, Windows NLB
Improvements:
Port 4443 now recognized as AIM protocol.
Bug Fixed:
Packet distribution statistics dose not work when restart capturing after open an existing project file.
The 1 byte packet value filter dose not work correctly with byte masks.
October 28, 2007 Case Study: Coverdell
Coverdell is a full-service marketing services company with offices in Atlanta and Chicago.
The Challenge
Coverdell has a network of 225 computers. It used to have issues with SMTP and Exchange working with Frontbridge (Microsoft Hosted Exchange Services) and needed to find the break down with communication between Coverdell and Frontbridge. Before these issues could be addressed, it needed to capture and understand SMTP traffic on network and beyond.
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October 17, 2007 Case Study: EDS (Electronic Data Systems)
EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering systems integration, networking, software development, hardware and software support services.
The Challenge
Clients system needed to be deployed on-time and on-budget.
EDS has a global network with over 100,000 computers. EDS also supports a broad range of global clients some of which also have well over 100,000 networked devices. The project that caused EDS to purchase Colasoft was a complex Java based application, with a database and multiple servers, deployed on General Motors, used across multiple locations. When the client's application was piloted, the initial locations had great connectivity and the application functioned normally. As the pilot progressed, remote locations were reporting only partial or no functionality.
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ctober 10, 2007 Case study: Technovation Design. LLC
Technovation Design is an SMB network support outsourcing company which provides innovative solutions in computer and network installation, support and training.
The Challenge
As an IT outsourcing organization, Technovation Design needs to be able to provide its clients with a high level of service, including several services they probably wouldn't get with an inhouse IT staff. Many organizations don't know how their Internet bandwidth is being used, or which computers are doing what activity, and Technovation Design needs to provide this information to them.
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September 17, 2007 New Price for Colasoft MSN Monitor
In order to pave the way for its new product - Colasoft IM Monitor, Colasoft has made an official price adjustment to its MSN Monitor that performs real-time and 7x24 continuous monitoring, provides statistics of communications and automatically saves message for future reference.
Based on packet analysis technology, Colasoft MSN Monitor focuses on MSN applications and instant message management. Besides capturing message contents, it also summarizes local MSN accounts and provides the statistics of account status, logins, message counts, contacts, message-related traffic that exceed traditional MSN message content "monitors" or "sniffers". The conversation matrix brings you a real-time insight into the MSN communications in your network.
Whether you are a company manager who wants to learn how much time your employees are spending in personal chatting or record conversation details for future reference, a parent wants to beware of whom your children most often communicate with or discover what your children are interested in, a secret manager wants to prevent business secrets from being leaked by insiders, MSN Monitor has the tool you want.
MSN Monitor runs under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, and now costs $19.95(US) for a 5-Account license of the Express Edition. The Professional Edition, with prices beginning at $29.95(US), has other enhanced features.
For detailed description of MSN Monitor 2.0, please click here.
September 3, 2007 Colasoft Capsa 6.5 Newly Released
Colasoft Co., Ltd has released Capsa 6.5. Users now can directly monitor real-time activities and message details of four most popular instant messengers: MSN, AIM, ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.
Latest key features include:
- Instant Messenger Activities Log
Newly added IM analyzer module allows users to directly monitor real-time activities and message details of four most popular instant messengers: MSN, AIM, ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.
- User Wizard
User Wizard enables users to test the selected adapters to check whether the installation and deployment are correct.
For detailed description of version 6.5, please click here.
July 12, 2007 Promotion: Colasoft Launched Its Summer Promotion Program
Colasoft launched its summer promotion program, offering customers an up-to-50% discount. Customers who purchase Colasoft Capsa with 1 or 2 years maintenance before August 15 can save as much as $ 4,000.
Promotion details:
- For enterprise and professional users, Colasoft offers a 20% discount.
- For educational users, Colasoft offers a 50% discount (the original discount is 30%).
- For government or non-profit institution, Colasoft offers a 35% discount (the original discount is 15%).
- For upgrade users, Colasoft offers a 40% discount.
June 14, 2007 Product: Colasoft MSN Monitor 2.0 Newly Released
Colasoft newly released Colasoft MSN Monitor 2.0, providing users with more powerful functions and customizable options.
Besides supporting Windows Vista Platform, it also adopts an optimized analysis engine which
can greatly enhance the analysis efficiency.
With its newly integrated features, users can easily get a direct view of the desired monitor information. New features include:
- Supports Windows Vista
- Setup Wizard for selecting/testing adapter and defining storage path
- Customizable IP filter for filtering IP addresses or IP ranges
- Account settings for users to define excluded account list
- Supports exporting messages to text file with defined conditions
- Adapter test page for testing adapters
- Storage setting page for database path and time option
Click here to learn more about the new updates.
Mar 26, 2007 Purchase: New payment option for online order - PayPal
PayPal is an online payment service with over 100 million registered
users taking advantage of the service to pay for their orders online. From now on,
Colasoft customers can select this payment method in the order process. After selecting this payment method in the order process, customers are automatically
redirected to the PayPal website. Customers log on as usual or open an
account if they have not registered with PayPal before. Once a PayPal
account is set up, customers can pay for their orders immediately.
Customers are then redirected to the final page of the share-it! order
process. In most cases, product delivery will be initiated immediately.
For more information about available payment options, please
visit: http://www.colasoft.com/purchase/howtobuy.php.
Mar 22, 2007 Product: Colasoft Capsa 6.4 for Vista is available
Colasoft new released the version 6.4 of Colasoft Capsa to support Windows Vista Platform.
Besides Vista, this version also supports Windows XP 64-bit
Edition and Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition (AMD x64
processor architectures), adds new protocol decoders like
Gopher, ICP, SCTP and VRRP, and make some bug fixes. Users are
recommended to upgrade to this new release for better analysis
results. To learn details, please see
the update list at:
http://www.colasoft.com/capsa/release.php.
Feb 26, 2007 Award: Colasoft MSN Monitor popular on CNET Networks
Just released two weeks ago, Colasoft MSN Monitor has gained "Popular" on CNET Networks websites
and many users have tried this new product. Please visit
http://www.download.com/Colasoft-MSN-Monitor/3000-2651_4-10638199.html? for more details.
Feb 8, 2007 Product: Colasoft MSN Monitor 1.0 new released
Colasoft just released Colasoft MSN Monitor version 1.0. Based on packet analysis technology, Colasoft MSN Monitor focuses on MSN applications and instant message management. Besides capturing message contents, it also summarizes local MSN accounts and provides the statistics of account status, logins, message counts, contacts, message-related traffic that exceed traditional MSN message content "monitors" & "sniffers". The conversation matrix brings you a real-time insight into the MSN communications in your network. Main features include:
- Accurate MSN analysis results based on CSPAE (Colasoft
Packet
Analysis Engine)
- Monitoring multiple network adapters
- 7x24 continuous monitoring
- Auto-save messages in real time
- Real time online status monitoring, e.g. online, busy, away,
hidden...
- Seamless connection between real time messages monitoring
and history messages browsing
- Statistics of local MSN accounts, remote MSN contacts and
messages
- Supports messages between multiple participants
- Unique conversation matrix view
- Customizable display name of accounts and contacts
- Supports MSN default emoticons in display name and message
- Supports message font and colors display
For more information about this new release, please visit: http://www.colasoft.com/msn_monitor/.
Jan 9, 2007 Download: Over 60 thousand downloads of Capsa on CNET Networks
The total downloads for Colasoft Capsa on download.com has
exceeded 60 thousand, and as a "Popular" network monitoring tool,
there are more than 1000 users every week download the program and
try to use it to analyze their network. More information can be
found here:
http://www.download.com/Packet-Sniffer-Colasoft-Capsa/3000-2085_4-10617526.html?
Jan 2, 2007 Purchase: Northcliffe Newspapers becomes our new client
Northcliffe Newspapers is one of the largest regional newspaper
publishers in the UK. Operating from 18 publishing centres,
Northcliffe publishes over 100 publications in the UK including 20
daily titles, 28 paid-for weeklies and over 50 free weekly
newspapers. Now in order to improve its network construction and
management, Northcliffe Newspapers chooses Colasoft Capsa 6.3
Enterprise as the safeguard for stable communications.