A Light Weight Intrusion Detection tool-SNORT

Hai all n Readers of my blog...

In this blog i am going to share some ideas about the Best Intrusion Detection Tool called Snort which is an open source software...

Main WebPage-www.snort.org

This tool is available both in windows and linux version....I am using the windows version and i am gonna discuss the same here......


Installing Snort:

First of all download the latest version of Snort from the site mentioned and click the binary installer file to install...After installing it Install WinPcap s/w which is necessary of windows users

The next step is to register in Snort Forum and download the Rules File from it and add it to the folder where u have installed the snort..C:/ or D:..I assume u have installed it in C:

Configuring Snort:

The next step is to configure the Snort tool according to the requirements of ur Network...
all changes are made in Snort.Config file in the location c:\Snort\etc\snort.config

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