York

York is a simple-to-use application that logs all network traffic. It primarily caters to advanced users, such as network administrators.

After a brief and uneventful setup procedure, you can check out the user-friendly interface, represented by a regular window divided into multiple tabs for viewing packets and other data.

Network traffic monitoring automatically starts at initialization. You can view the time, addresses, port number and packet size for each host.

You can view captured files, passwords, web sessions and pictures, as well as check out the database log and search for information by various criteria (e.g. type, address, port). It can be exported to CSV format for further scrutiny.

As far as program configuration is concerned, you can select the network adapter, ask the tool to log TCP, UDP, ICMP and NETBIOS packets, append the start time to the log file name, and enable sound notifications on certain events (e.g. new connection).

You can set York to automatically run at system startup, assign a password for accessing information and the Options dialog, as well as use MySQL to store logs, among others.

York is light on the system resources, so it doesn't put a strain on computer performance or interrupt normal activity. We haven't come across any issues in our tests, since the app did not hang or crash. York includes a set of handy features for monitoring network traffic.