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Next: 4.7 What are all Up: 4 Rules and Alerts Previous: 4.5 I'm getting large

4.6 What about all these false alarms?

Most think that a pile of false positives is infinitely preferable. Then people can turn off what they don't want. The reverse, having a small rule set, can lure people into complacency thinking that Snort is doing ``its thing'' and there is nothing to worry about.


Nigel Houghton 2006-10-02
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