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Re: Why so many default disabled rules?
From: "Megan.Carney () selectcomfort com" <Megan.Carney () selectcomfort com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:50:40 +0000
The more rules you enable the more resource-intensive the snort process is. :) Also, some rules have a higher false positive rate than others or are more useful in some environments than others. Basically Snort has to make an educated guess as to which rules need to be turned on, and it's up to you to determine if that guess is correct for your environment. From: Kurzawa, Kevin [mailto:kkurzawa () co pinellas fl us] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:25 AM To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: [Snort-users] Why so many default disabled rules? I am curious as to why the Snort rules ship with so many of them disabled/commented out by default. It seems the default set is ~4,000. But if using the option to enable /all/ rules in Oinkmaster it comes out with ~20,000. I get Registered User Release rules, not the Subscriber Release rules.
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- Why so many default disabled rules? Kurzawa, Kevin (Apr 17)
- Re: Why so many default disabled rules? Teo En Ming (Apr 17)
- Re: Why so many default disabled rules? Kurzawa, Kevin (Apr 17)
- Re: Why so many default disabled rules? Y M (Apr 17)
- Re: Why so many default disabled rules? Megan.Carney () selectcomfort com (Apr 17)
- Re: Why so many default disabled rules? Teo En Ming (Apr 17)