Re: http_inspect: UNKNOWN METHOD

[Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com>]

We gotten a lot of alerts for that before.. and we actually have that
in our disabled.conf file.

We got back and look at them semi often to see if we can work out the
deal, but for now we have this disabled.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Greg Williams <gwillia5 () uccs edu> wrote:
> I updated the rules (free VRT) last Friday and didn’t look at the alerts
> until today.  I’ve received 158,000 alerts for http_inspect: UNKNOWN METHOD.
> SID is 119-31. alert ( msg: "HI_CLIENT_UNKNOWN_METHOD"; sid: 31; gid: 119;
> rev: 1; metadata: rule-type preproc ; classtype:unknown; )
>
>
>
> I don’t see a reason for this, and I can put a threshold on this rule, but
> is anyone else seeing the same kind of alerts within the past few days?
>
>
>
> Greg Williams
> IT Security Principal
> University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
> Phone: 719-255-3211
> Website: http://www.uccs.edu/itsecure
> greg.williams () uccs edu
>
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