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Difference between Wireshark and Snort

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Hi All,

I am very new to security field and exploring various tools. i came across two great tools Wireshark and Snort... i found we can set filters in both tools. Can any one please explain the difference between both the tools...

Thank you in advance..

asked 10 Dec '13, 22:08

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Wireshark reads packets and decodes them in "human readable format" for you to inspect whatever it is that happens in those packets.

Snort is a intrusion detection systems, which scans for malicious (or other) patterns in packets it sees, kind of like a Virus Scanner, and alerts if it sees something.

answered 11 Dec '13, 01:02

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