| | Weekly Security Tools Digest |
 | | It's main advantages over the console based version, is the graphical user interface (GUI), the database of common trojan ports and the complete list of well-known ports (the ports that are numbered below 1024 and reserved for different applications). |
 | | Snort uses a flexible rules language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular plugin architecture. |
 | | Snort has a real-time alerting capability as well, incorporating alerting mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient. |
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