Download oinkmaster for windows

It can also be used to update and manage the VRT licensed rules, the community rules, the bleeding-snort rules and other third party rules, including your own local rules. However in order to run Oinkmaster we need to install Perl engine and make it run. ActivePerl is Perl for Windows. It is a complete, ready-to-install commercial-grade Perl distribution and recommended for open source projects and community developers, the latest versions are available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

It is only supported through community forums and may not be distributed within applications. Download and Install Perl for Windows. In this case we download Windows installer MSI. Double click the MSI file. Click Run to dismiss the Windows Security Warning dialog box. Click Next button. Accept the License Agreement and click Next. Now, we are ready to install and configure Oinkmaster. Firstly download the latest version at Oinkmaster.

Extract the compressed file. In this case we downloaded and uncompress the file in Snort root folder. Running the Oinkmaster GUI. Next, run the Oinkmaster GUI program oinkgui. The file should be under contrib sub folder. Can't locate Tk. Updating Tk Package. We got some error here. Next, re-run the oinkgui. The following screenshot shows Oinkmaster GUI.

Now we are ready to do basic configuration. Left-click the 'Required files and directories' tab. There are three dialog boxes that must be configured. In the 'oinkmaster. You can use the Browse button to browse and select those files. Next, left-click on the 'Optional files and directories' tab. There are four dialog boxes that should be configured. Getting the Oinkmaster Code. Register at Snort. Click the Subscriptions and Oinkcodes tab. Click Oinkcodes link, generate and get the code.

The following screenshots demonstrates the page on how to get the Oinkmaster code.