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[Snort-sigs] gator rule? 'pure not rule'?

Subject: [Snort-sigs] gator rule? 'pure not rule'?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:00:33 -0400
Received this error after a cold start:

Apr 11 07:23:26 smtp snort[89121]: SNORT DETECTION ENGINE: Pure Not Rule
'BLEEDING-EDGE Malware  Gator Agent Traffic' not added to detection
engine.  These rules are not supported at this time.

Rule is this, in bleeding-malware.rules
(Gator isn't malware anymore because Microsoft bought Clarion, right? ;-)

alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:
"BLEEDING-EDGE Malware  Gator Agent Traffic"; flow:
to_server,established; flowbits:isset,http.UserAgent;
content:!"User-Agent\: Akregator"; pcre:"/User-Agent\:[^\n]+Gator/i";
classtype: policy-violation; sid: 2000026; rev:11;)

(the theory behind the [^\n] is that malware could move the gator tag
behind an extra space or two.. however, if they waned to hide it, they
could just change name)

Why is this a pure 'not' rule? does the NOT detector consider pcre as valid?
is the flowbits:isset.http.UserAgent just adding complexity to this?
could this be solved with: (didn't error this time)

alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:
"BLEEDING-EDGE Malware  Gator Agent Traffic"; flow:
to_server,established; content:"User-Agent\:"; nocase;
content:!"User-Agent\: Akregator"; pcre:"/User-Agent\:[^\n]+Gator/i";
classtype: policy-violation; sid: 2000026; rev:12;)

snort version 2.4.4:
snort -V

  ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
 o"  )~   Version 2.4.4 (Build 28) FreeBSD
  ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/team.html
          (C) Copyright 1998-2005 Sourcefire Inc., et al.


Freebsd 4.11, normlish set of rules, snort command line:

ps -wwp89121
 PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
89121 ??  Ss     0:01.25 /usr/local/bin/snort -doDI -m 022 -k none -c
/etc/snort/snort_lan.conf -i em1 -l /var/log/snort_lan -F
/etc/snort/snort_lan.bpf



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