Re: snort- problems

[Alfredo Octavio <aov () primeordeal com>]

There is an obvious false positive, it is when a user or a program 
issues an id command, if you are using Mac OS X and do not have root 
activated (which you shouldn't), then you can safely ignored this 
alerts.
About your other problem I am not sure. Normal snort configuration 
should be scanning your whole subnet. There must be something in the 
network config (a blocked switch?) not permitting it...
Ciao,
aov

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 10:52  AM, Rishi Pande wrote:

> 2) Last night I had a bunch of alerts pop-up which said
> "ATTACK-RESPONSES id check returned root"; content: "uid=0(root)"
> Snort's signature database said this was an indication of an attacker
> gaining super user access to the system and that there are no known
> false positives. The alert also mentioned that the source for the
> attacks were port 80 on IPs belonging to websites I had open(Snort and
> SANS) I ran netstat to check if the ports they were connecting to had
> established a connection but none of the ports mentioned showed any
> connections. I also NMAPped the machine and it showed only the expected
> ports to be open.
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