full-disclosure - blocking Google Desktop

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Date: Tue Feb 14 18:11:41 2006
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: blocking Google Desktop

> The first rule would get flowbits:noalert; flowbits:set,google.user.agent;
> And the second rule would get flowbits:isset,google.user.agent;

Is that global (if #1, then always #2), or is it "per-IP" ?

I verified I can block the SSL session setup using the snort sig I 
posted the other day .. but it kills any Google SSL (gmail, groups, 
etc.) .. which is fine, provided I can only block google SSL to users 
that are running the desktop.

~Mike.