RE: Pattern matching search tool

["ALD, Aditya, Aditya Lalit Deshmukh" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway expertworks net>]

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> [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of 
> Paul Schmehl
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 02:58 AM
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> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Pattern matching search tool
>
> Is anyone aware of a search tool (not Google or search engine 
> aggregation 
> software) that could be used to search our network for 
> "interesting stuff"? 
> It needs to be capable of doing pattern matching similar to 
> perl's regular 
> expression stuff.


Dear paul I think you answered your own question over here - its perl!
However there is another tool ntop that I use quite a lot.


> I'm looking for something that, for example, could tell me all 
> the machines 
> on our network that are running copies of phpBB (obvious 
> reasons) so that 
> we could quickly identify potential problem areas.


This I would use a fine tuned version of snort or 
a http proxy logging all the requests with logwatch watching for the
"intresting stuff"


-aditya

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