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Re: Question regarding a rule


From: James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:39:39 -0600

On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 21:36 +0100, Charlie Egan wrote:
Nope none whatsoever other than specifying my $HOME_NET ip. I assumed
they may be false positives, but I'm only downloading one torrent file
to my desktop when I run the test, so it doesn't make sense to me why
25 odd alerts are popping up. The content of the rule is at the
beginning of the hex dump of the metafile, and |38 64 61| certainly
doesn't pop up again within the file.


Do you have any idea what could be causing false positives?

Cheers


If you'd like to share a pcap of the file off list I'll take a look at
that and the current rule you're trying.

James

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