"Detect intrusions" - if you can set an IDS signature for something, then you shouldn't be vulnerable to it. So the functionality of IDS is to tell you when you've been compromised by six-month old public vulnerabilities that dvdman has finally gotten his hands on an exploit for, that you never bothered to patch for?
Useless.
You bring new meaning to the word "idiot".
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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