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Re: False positive on sid:17246


From: Alex Kirk <akirk () sourcefire com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:02:23 -0400

You're not the only one. We're already reviewing the best way to update the
rule based on a FP report we got in this morning. We'll have a new version
out in the next 1-2 SEUs.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Andy Berryman <aberryman () cymtec com>wrote:

Anyone getting false positives on this? I just did a rule update this
morning am now getting tons of events for this all of a sudden.



SPECIFIC-THREATS Multiple vendor Antivirus magic byte detection evasion
attempt



Just seeing if anyone else is experiencing it? It looks like they are
triggering on gzip files.







Thanks,

Andy Berryman
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