Thanks Scott.  I'll give it a try!

Michael

On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 4:22:47 PM UTC-7, Scott VR wrote:
>
> I'd try escaping the comma with a backslash. (or perhaps a double 
> backslash?) 
>
> -- 
> ScottVR 
>
>
>
> On May 1, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: 
>
> > So, I'm getting OSSEC running for the company I work for.  So far so 
> > good up to the point of monitoring the registry.  All the basic ones 
> > are fine, but we have some entries our developers are using commas in 
> > the reg entry names.  Basically the registry entry looks like this: 
> > 
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Our Software, Inc\product 
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Our Software, Inc\product 
> > 
> > What I would expect to see is this: 
> > 2012/05/01 13:56:01 ossec-agent: INFO: Monitoring registry entry: 
> > 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Ours Software, Inc\product'. 
> > 2012/05/01 13:56:01 ossec-agent: INFO: Monitoring registry entry: 
> > 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Ours Software, Inc\product'. 
> > 
> > The problem is the when I add that hive to the ossec.conf the logs 
> > show this: 
> > 2012/05/01 13:56:01 ossec-agent: INFO: Monitoring registry entry: 
> > 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Ours Software'. 
> > 2012/05/01 13:56:01 ossec-agent: INFO: Monitoring registry entry: 'Inc 
> > \product'. 
> > 2012/05/01 13:56:01 ossec-agent: INFO: Monitoring registry entry: 
> > 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Ours Software'. 
> > 
> > Notice the 2nd "Inc\product'. is missing too. 
> > 
> > I tried quotes around the whole hive which results in this (again with 
> > the 2nd Inc... missing): 
> > 2012/05/01 15:24:12 ossec-agent: INFO: Monitoring registry entry: 
> > '"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Our Software'. 
> > 2012/05/01 15:24:12 ossec-agent: INFO: Monitoring registry entry: 'Inc 
> > \Product"'. 
> > 2012/05/01 15:24:12 ossec-agent: INFO: Monitoring registry entry: 
> > '"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Our Software"'. 
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to get OSSEC to view these completely? 
>

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