Re: Receiving alerts for a disabled rule

[SnortFan <SnortFan () yahoo com>]

If not the two things Joel listed, it could also be your sig-msg.map file reference is incorrect for the sid/rev and 
the description your feeding to by2 to place into the database is incorrect. This is highly unlikely, but If you still 
have the snort log for the time you can use the tool provided with the snort install to read the file and see if the 
sid and rev for the rule you commented out is really alerting. 

Enjoy,
Ed

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> On Feb 20, 2014, at 10:36 AM, "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com> wrote:
>
> If you are receiving the alert from the rule, then it is either:
>
> A) Not disabled
> B) You didn’t restart Snort after you disabled it.
>
> --
> Joel Esler
> Threat Intelligence Team Lead
> Open Source Manager
> Vulnerability Research Team
>
> > On Feb 20, 2014, at 7:03 AM, Anshuman Anil Deshmukh <anshuman () cybage com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >  
> > Recently I found that I am getting alerts for one of the rule which is commented out. What could be the possible 
> > reason for generating such alert when the rule is disabled?
> >  
> > Here are my setup details below.
> >  
> > Snort version: Version 2.9.5 GRE (Build 103)
> > Barnyard version: Version 2.1.9 (Build 263) - XFF patch (version 2)
> > Rules are updating using pulledpork version 0.70 where all rules reside in one single file
> >  
> > Below are the references of the actual rule and the alert generated on SNORBY.
> >  
> >  
> > <image004.jpg>
> >  
> >  
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > Anshuman
> > Information Security-Analyst
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