On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Michael Kleinpaste
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Gave that a try and no dice.  \\ and // didn't have an effect.   Grrr.
>
>

Did you try a single backslash? I have no idea if it'll work, I don't
know if I've ever seen a comma in a registry entry.

> 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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