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Re: [Snort-users] Snort Rules Availability

From: Seth <sethsec_at_nospam>
Date: Wed Feb 06 2008 - 20:44:45 GMT
To: "Mike Guiterman" <mike.guiterman@sourcefire.com>


Patrick passed away? Did his happen recently?

-Seth

On Feb 6, 2008 9:56 AM, Mike Guiterman <mike.guiterman@sourcefire.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We plan on opening applications for our annual Scholarship program on
> Feb. 13. An announcement will be sent out when the application is
> available online. This year's scholarship program will be in memory of
> Patrick and all of his contributions to the community.
>
> John is correct. There is a 30 day delay from the original release date
> for each VRT updates. After 30 days new rules are available free of
> charge to registered users of Snort.org.
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
> John Pritchard wrote:
> > There was a VRT release today 2008-02-05. Currently, if you don't
> > "subscribe" there is a 30 day delay before you have access to the new
> > rules..... Hence, the 2008-03-05 availability date...
> > http://www.snort.org/vrt/why_subscribe.html
> >
> > On Feb 5, 2008 10:17 PM, CoryC <oakleeman@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a question about rule availability. The current
> >> version of Snort available for download is 2.8.0.1 and
> >> there is a version 2.8 ruleset available for
> >> subscribers but only a version 2.7 ruleset available
> >> for registered users.
> >>
> >> I realize that there CURRENT rulesets for both
> >> subscriber and registered users but have read several
> >> times to not use CURRENT rulesets on production
> >> systems.
> >>
> >> I also remember reading the first of January that the
> >> subscriber rulesets were available to subscribers only
> >> until January 17 or so. Now I see that it says the
> >> rules are available to subscribers only until March 5,
> >> 2008 but still don't see any version 2.8 rules for
> >> registered users.
> >>
> >> What is the specific delay between subscriber and
> >> registered ruleset availability?
> >>
> >> Mike, any word on the Patrick Harper scholarship?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
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