Re: Integrating ClamAv into Snort

[Ayodele Okeowo <aymacro () gmail com>]

Sorry I meant Shawn.

> >
I'm looking up the tools but I'm trying to understand what they do;
although I have a little idea but there seems to be no place on what it is,
what's used for and the purpose of the tools.

Any intake on that?

Ayo


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Jefferson, Shawn <
Shawn.Jefferson () bcferries com> wrote:

> What you are looking for is something like RazorBack, or possibly BroIDS.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: waldo kitty [mailto:wkitty42 () windstream net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Integrating ClamAv into Snort
>
> On 2/12/2013 11:48, Ayodele Okeowo wrote:
> > folks,
> >
> > Has anyone successfully integrated or used ClamAv with Snort? if, Yes,
> > please could you share how and what documentation to read to be able to
> implement this?
>
> for what reason? if you are thinking about scanning files that users
> transfer, then you want to include additional packages along side of your
> snort... these would perform full packet capture and then offer slicing out
> the files for analysis...
>
> snort needs to sniff and sniff only... it doesn't need to worry about
> things like scanning for viruses or even trying to log to a database...
> these things slow snort down and traffic is lost or otherwise not
> analyzed... that's not a GoodThing<tm>... leave these tasks to other apps
> to handle ;)
>
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