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Re: Question regarding a rule


From: James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:24:33 -0600

On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 13:10 +0100, Charlie Egan wrote:
Hi James, 



Sorry a bit new to all of this - is a pcap file just a saved Wireshark
file so you can have a look at all of the packets?



Cheers




On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:39 PM, James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>
wrote:

        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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Indeed it is.

James
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