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[Terryala]

Snort for Windows

Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more.

Global website:
http://www.snort.org/

Program download
http://www.snort.org/downloads?

Rulesets download:
http://www.snort.org...t-rules/?#rules

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Edited by TheSentinel, 22 April 2010 - 11:18 AM.
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[Chachazz]

Snort 2.9.1.2 has been posted!
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Snort 2.9.1.2, a minor bug fix, has just been posted to the Snort.org website.
The release notes for this release contain the following:

Improvements

• Fixed an issue where Snort would sometimes stop processing traffic in a
  persistent HTTP 1.1 connection with a UTF-32 encoded response followed by
  a UTF-16 encoded response.

You may grab the newest release of Snort here: http://www.snort.org/snort-downloads

To make installation easier for our users, you simply need to compile Snort with
./configure --enable-sourcefire

We'll be working with our community documentation writers in order to update the documentation to reflect this information.