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Re: Why so many default disabled rules?


From: Teo En Ming <teo.en.ming () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:51:01 +0800

Dear Kevin,

I have raised the same question before.

Teo En Ming


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Kurzawa, Kevin <kkurzawa () co pinellas fl us
wrote:

I am curious as to why the Snort rules ship with so many of them
disabled/commented out by default.



It seems the default set is ~4,000. But if using the option to enable
/all/ rules in Oinkmaster it comes out with ~20,000. I get Registered User
Release rules, not the Subscriber Release rules.




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