Re: Help! I ran Nessus Vulnerability Scanner against my Public IP and No Alerts showed up on my Snort IDS box!

[James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

On 2014-04-07 15:04, Teo En Ming wrote:
> Dear James,
>
> I have already added the following rule to icmp.rules some time ago:
>
> alert icmp any any -> any any (msg:"ICMP Packet", sid:477; rev:3;)
>
> The rule DID fire when I visited grc.com [7] to port scan my public 
> IP
> address.
>
> Use Gibson Research Corporations ShieldsUP! to port scan your public
> IP address.
>
>  https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 [8]
>
> Regards,
>
> Teo En Ming

Excellent...then your IDS is functional :)

James

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