Re: Alerts are almost entirely "Executable Code was Detected"

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

What is the signature identification number you are referring to?

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On Dec 20, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Steve Marotta <smarotta () cra com> wrote:

> I'm looking at my alerts file that I generated from a pcap dump, and it's full of nothing but "Executable Code was 
> Detected". This is the case for just about every pcap file that I give it, with maybe only one or two other events 
> thrown in there. I realize it's entirely possible that that's valid output, but with all of the rules in the rule set 
> I'm using, I'd have expected more variety than that.
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> I'm using the 2.9.3 rules set provided on the Snort website. I can provide my snort.conf file if need be.
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