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1.9 Is Snort vulnerable to IDS noise generators like ``Stick'' and ``Snot''?

It is now possible to defeat these kinds of noise generators with the stream4 preprocessor (see (see FAQ [*])). Even without the stream4 preprocessor enabled, Snort will weather the alert storm without falling over or losing a lot of alerts due to its highly optimized nature. Using tools that generate huge amounts of alerts will warn a good analyst that someone is trying to sneak by their defenses.


Nigel Houghton 2006-10-02
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