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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2001 01:46:49 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD IDS to babysit Microsoft hosts
Message-ID:  <20010511014649.A19248@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <73345.989568885@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:14:45AM %2B0200
References:  <20010511004209.A18132@xor.obsecurity.org> <73345.989568885@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>

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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:14:45AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Fri, 11 May 2001 00:42:09 MST, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> > You want snort (in ports)
>=20
> Yes!!!
>=20
> Kris, thanks so much, this is awesome stuff!
>=20
> The port comes with a whole bunch of rules files that end in -lib.  The
> snort web site has a snortrules.tar.gz in which files end in .rules.  I
> assume that the rules on the web site should be used in preference over
> those that come with the port?

Actually the best ruleset I've found is the ArachNIDS set from
www.whitehats.com.  The rules that come with snort (or on the website)
aren't quite so well-organised, although there's lots of good stuff
there.  You can of course customize them to pick out the good parts.

Kris

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