Are the rules not being read?

[Eric Zheng <zhengeric () hotmail com>]

I have set up snort successfully and I can get it to read pings to websites and scan packets.  However, I am testing 
out the chat rules which should trigger an alert whenever I sign onto MSN or Yahoo but it does not seem to do anything 
whenever I sign in and talk to people.  I have it enabled in snort.conf (took away the # sign) and see that chat.rules 
is in the rules directory.  Anyone know any possible causes of this?  Thank you.

PS:  I'm also getting a lot of 1384 "malformed advertisement" alerts which I believe to be false positives.  Any way to 
correct this?  Thanks.
                                          
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