Wxpython is the python port of wxwidgets gui library. On ubuntu wxpython can be installed from synaptic. On windows it can be downloaded from the website wxpython.org And here is a small program that pops up a simple window , to take a domain name and perform a whois for that domain.

Basic Sniffer The most basic form of a sniffer would be : Run this with root privileges or sudo on ubuntu : sudo python sniffer.py The above sniffer works on the principle that a raw socket is capable of receiving all (of its type , like AF_INET) incoming traffic in Linux. The output could look like this : The above is a dump of the network packets in hex. They can be parsed using the [...]