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ViperDB was created as a smaller and faster option to
Tripwire.
Tripwire, while being a great product, leaves something to
be desired in the speed department. Also, by default,
tripwire generates a report everytime it runs and directs
that report to an email address. This hinders most people
from running Tripwire every few minutes to do a system
check. ViperDB, however, is the answer to this problem.
ViperDB does not use a fancy all-in-one database to keep
records. Instead, uses a plaintext db which is stored in
each "watched" directory. By using this, there is no real
one attack point for a attacker to focus his attention.
This coupled with the running of ViperDB every 5 minutes
(via cron root job) decreases that likelyhood that an
attacker will be able to modify your "watched" filesystem.
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