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The following setup guides have been contributed by members of the Snort Community for your use. Comments and questions on these documents should be submitted directly to the author by clicking on their names below.

Snort 3 Setup Guides
Rules Writers Guide to Snort 3 Rules
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3 on FreeBSD 11
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3 Multiple Packet Threads Processing
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3.0.0-a4 on OpenSuSe 42.3
Boris Gomez
Snort 3.1.0.0 on CentOS Stream
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3.1.0.0 on OracleLinux 8
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3.1.0.0 on Ubuntu 18 & 20
Noah Dietrich
Snort Deployment Guides
RSyslog rate limiting configuration
William Parker
Snort IPS using DAQ AFPacket
Yaser Mansour
Snort IPS Tutorial
Vladimir Koychev
Changing from IDS to IPS with NFQueue
James Lay
How to make some Home Routers mirror traffic to Snort
William Parker
Snort Related Whitepapers
Inline Normalization using Snort 2.9.0
Russ Combs
Target Based Stream Reassembly
Judy Novak
Using Perfmon and Performance Profiling to Tune Snort Preprocessors and Rules
Steve Sturges
HTTP Evasions Revisited
Daniel Roelker
Target Based Fragmentation Reassembly
Judy Novak
VRT Methodology Whitepaper
Vulnerability Research Team (VRT)
Optimization of Pattern Matches for IDS
Marc Norton
Snort Setup Guides
Snort Setup Guides for Windows
WinSnort.com
Snort 2.9.9.x on OpenSuSE Leap 42.2
Boris Gomez
Snort 2.9.16.1 on CentOS8
Milad Rezaei
Snort 2.9.0.x with PF_RING inline deployment
Metaflows Google Group
Webcast Slides
Introduction to Snort: Part 1
Nick Moore
Pimp My Snort
Leon Ward
Writing Effective Rules, Part II
Matt Olney
Performance Tuning: Rules & Preprocessors
Writing Effective Rules, Part I
Matt Olney
OpenAppId Detection Webinar
Costas Kleopa
Effective Problem Reporting: How to Get Your Problems Noticed and Fixed
Intro to Snort
Ed Mendez
Using the Host Attribute Table in Snort
OpenAppId Community Webinar
Costas Kleopa
Snort Tuning 101
Nick Moore
Using Multiconfig
John Gay
Open Source Community Webinar
Joel Esler
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1-57797
This rule detects a useless bitshift which was observed in obfuscated malicious Javascript samples.
1-57791
This rule detects the attempted download of Win.Packed.SmokeLoader variants, also known as Conti ransomware by looking for unique data contained within the executable file.
1-57790
This rule detects the attempted download of Win.Malware.Agent malicious executable by looking for specific data used in the executable.
1-57789
This rule detects the attempted download of Win.Trojan.Lazagne malicious executable.
1-57788
This rule detects the attempted download of Win.Trojan.Lazagne malicious executable.
1-57787
This rule detects the attempted download of Win.Malware.Agent malicious executable by looking for specific data used in the executable.