Re: Snort Windows 8 Pro?

[John Gomez <john.gomez () mac com>]

Truly appreciate the feedback and guidance…this really helps!

We are new to Snort and working on a very tight timeline project so trying to do what we can to reduce our going down 
the wrong path…

Thank you Dr. Gantz!!!!


On Jul 2, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Stephen Gantz <stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu> wrote:

> John,
>
> I teach a graduate course in IDS for which all students install and run Snort, many on Windows 7 and 8. I have 
> encountered no significant issues with Windows 8 installs, but our use of the product for introductory/teaching 
> purposes is obviously not the same as running Snort in a real-world setting. The windows installer from Snort.org 
> (for version 2.9.6.1 at least) runs just fine on Windows and the snort.conf settings are the same as under Windows 7.
>
> Dr. Stephen D. Gantz
> CISSP-ISSAP, CEH, CGEIT, CRISC, CIPP/G, C|CISO
> Associate Professor of Information Assurance
> The Graduate School
> University of Maryland University College
> stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu
>
> > On Jul 2, 2014, at 8:41 AM, John Gomez <john.gomez () mac com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks - but a Google search (which I had done and several others) shows Snort under Windows 7…which yes 8 Pro has 
> > the same underlying bits…but I was hoping to see if someone had done this and if so did they encounter any issues or 
> > have any problems?  I was hopeful that as a community someone would be able to validate “hey yes did it no problems 
> > - follow the same steps as you do for Windows 7”
> >
> > I apologize that my query was so childish.
> >
> >
> > > On Jul 2, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Michael Steele <michaels () winsnort com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here let me help you search, and all shall be revealed:
> > > http://bit.ly/1mJrJwD
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Michael...
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Gomez [mailto:john.gomez () mac com] 
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 8:54 PM
> > > To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > > Subject: [Snort-users] Snort Windows 8 Pro?
> > >
> > > Can Snort be installed on Windows 8 64-bit?  Any issues or heads-up in
> > > making this happen?
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