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Re: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules..
From: "Peter J Manis" <pmanis () comcast net>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:14:53 -0500
When I went on to look at the prices, it was $200/month, or $500/quarter, or $1800/year for a subscription to the VRT Rules. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marc Hering To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:19 PM Subject: [Snort-users] My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Well, I know there has been a lot of debate over the new VRT Rules and licensing methods from Sourcefire. I was staying on the sidelines due to my relative newness to Snort in general, but now that I have had some interaction with the new website I wanted to let everyone know my experiences.. This is just what happened to me, and I am not trying to start any flame wars...so if you agree with me then great, if you don't agree with me then great! Let me start out by saying that I personally don't have a problem with what SF is doing, After all, if I didn't want to pay I can still get the rules 5 days later for free or write my own. but since I need the rules pretty fast (and I am not the best at writing rules..) I was ok with paying the subscription fee. So I mosey on over to snort.org and try to sign up. Well, all I can say is that if you are like me and don't mind paying the subscription, then GOOD LUCK!! Finding the pricing is damn near impossible, and when you follow the link to even sign up, it tries to take you to a secure site THAT HAS AN INVALID CERTIFICATE! (the cert is valid, but it doesn't protect snort.ort it is for sourcefire.com) then when I get to the signup page, firefox reports that this site is not secure at all (even though it says https, there is no encryption going on) Yean I'm gonna transmit info plaintext..NOT! And still no mention of how much it costs until after you create an account..... Oh and for all you ACID users out there, I just found out that you can't do a rule lookup anymore even if you are a subscriber ( In their defense, they DO say the rule lookup function is forthcoming and I am sure some clever person will write a patch eventually) I completely understand why Sourcefire is changing the way the rules are distributed, and I support them in it after all, they do deserve to get paid for hard work, however if they are going to make a change like this that affects the whole snort community, then I would request that they at least make sure that everything works before they put it live! Thanks! </rant mode>
Current thread:
- My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Marc Hering (Mar 08)
- Re: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Peter J Manis (Mar 08)
- Re: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Martin Roesch (Mar 08)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Scott Morris (Mar 08)
- RE: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez (Mar 08)
- Re: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Michael Sierchio (Mar 09)
- RE: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Arseneault, Thomas (HQP) (Mar 08)
- Re: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Martin Roesch (Mar 08)
- Re: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez (Mar 09)
- Re: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Martin Roesch (Mar 08)
- RE: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. James Ashton (Mar 08)
- Re: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Martin Roesch (Mar 09)
- RE: My Experience with the new Sourcefire VRT rules.. Keith Pachulski (Mar 09)