I get FIN scan alerts all the time from a particular
web site that one of my users frequents. I had my user
inform the site of this and their reply consisted of, 
1: Criticizing our ability to think because we use a
SonicWall as a firewall.
2: Telling us the SonicWall could not tell the difference
between a FIN scan and normal TCP traffic.
I know the SonicWALL (XPRS2) can set false positives
concerning FIN scans if it see a large number of them
from a single site in a certain amount of time. However
this is the only site that consistently sets these
alerts. We get random FIN scan alerts, but every time 
this particular user visits this site SonicWall sends me
an alert. 
  What normal TCP traffic would have such a large number
of packets with the FIN flag set? The SonicWall is supposed
to be stateful, does it not keep track of sequence numbers?
Lastly has anyone else had this problem?        


Jim Grossl
Boise, Idaho USA 

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