The server that has the old files is a Windows server.  The OSSEC
server is a linux.   So I'm not sure if that will fall under pre-
linking.

On Jun 10, 2:03 pm, "dan (ddp)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Windows or *nix?
> If linux, pre-linking maybe?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dan,
>
> > Thank you for replying.  No, the agent has been connected for the past
> > 2 weeks and I've been letting them run.  I wanted to validate the
> > alerts that were coming over and I found that when I went to that
> > server, the dates of these files went back quite a while ago.  The
> > agent tells us that the file was modified the day it alerted us,
> > however, the date the file was created/modified on the server is still
> > a couple years ago.  I have also looked into anyone who is doing work
> > on the server, and no one has touched these files.
>
> > On Jun 10, 12:52 pm, "dan (ddp)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Is it possible that agent hasn't been connected to the manager for a while?
> >> I don't particularly trust the file dates on the agents. If someone is
> >> messing around they can easily change those dates.
>
> >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Hello All,
>
> >> > I reviewed some of the OSSEC alerts that I am getting about integrity
> >> > checksums as well as new file alerts and noticed that the dates on the
> >> > files were from a couple years ago (for new file alerts.  the
> >> > integrity checksum one was a little less than a month ago).  Is there
> >> > any reason that it would be doing this?  I am using realtime="yes", so
> >> > I would assume that if I received an alert it was because the
> >> > integrity checksum was changed sometime today, or if a new file was
> >> > added it would have the date created/modified as of today.
>
> >> > Any thoughts?
>
> >> > Thanks in advance.

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