Re: Snort noob questions

[Caleb Jaren <tropism.prophet () gmail com>]

If this helps, I've always used an nmap Xmas scan against a host in the
monitored segment. The scan (iirc) would be something like "nmap  -v -sX
<target ip>".

What Joel said re: clam vs. Snort.
On Apr 19, 2013 1:43 PM, "Joel Esler" <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:

> On Apr 19, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Scott Bonar <sbonar () gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hopefully some quick questions from a Snort 'noob'.
>
> 1) got Snort up and running but I was curious, what is the best way to
> test it?
>
>
> Browse the internet for a bit!  ;)
>
> No, really, maybe some metasploit, icmp traffic?  Something like that.
>
> 2) what is the difference between ClamAV and Snort since it appears as
> if Snort has anti-virus/anti-spam/anti-phishing rules?
>
>
> ClamAV operates on files, on end hosts.  Snort is a network detection tool
> that watches traffic as it goes by and stops it (if in IPS mode).  The
> detection is written by the same people at the same time, so everything
> that Snort has a rule for ClamAV also has a rule for.
>
> --
> *Joel Esler*
> Senior Research Engineer, VRT
> OpenSource Community Manager
> Sourcefire
>
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