Re: How to detect OS with Snort?

[Nick Moore <nmoore () sourcefire com>]

Borja,

In truth, a better tool for detecting operating systems is NMAP (
http://nmap.org/download.html). Snort is more for intrusion detection and
network sniffing.

Nick

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Borja Luaces <borja.luaces () gmail com> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> First of all I have to say that I am new to Snort.
>
> I am trying to create an alert rule to detect the OS but everytime I try
> it it seems not to work.
>
> The rule looks like the following one:
>
> alert tcp any any -> any any (content:"Windows NT";msg:"Microsoft OS
> detected";)
>
> Any help?
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> --
> Borja Luaces Altares
> Administrador/Analista de Sistemas (MCSE Security,C|EH & CSSA)
>
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