snort funtionallity

[Nick Smith <nick () computernick com>]

isnt there a way to have snort email you when a serious attack occurs? i 
thought i remembered reading that some where but cant find it now.  also 
is ACID the best console for snort? or are they any better ones out 
there? and are there any websites with a list of rules to add to 
increase security of your snort install without having to write all the 
rules by hand yourself? and where would i add those rules?  and finally 
this probably goes along with the previous question; i am getting 
virtually no ICMP (<1%) traffic and no portscan traffic (0%), i know 
there has to be some traffic for those, and i have a fresh install of 
snort running, is there something i have to add to get snort to look for 
that traffic? 

thanks for any and all help, im very new to snort and acid and need all 
the help i can get

thanks

nick



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