I receive other alerts so at least I know it is partially configured 
correctly. 

The apache log file entries look something like this:

70.55.163.53 - - [05/Jun/2014:08:46:36 -0400] "GET 
/path/to/file/captcha.php HTTP/1.1" 200

thanks 

On Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:55:09 AM UTC-4, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Lou <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > I'm new to OSSEC and have recently installed it on some web servers that 
> are 
> > being 'abused'.  Every 15-20 seconds the user is accessing the captcha 
> file 
> > and i believe he is using an OCR tool to bypass it.  I was under the 
> impression 
> > that OSSEC would detect this automatically with it's included rules and 
> send 
> > me a notification (similar to DOS attack).  This does not seem to be the 
> > case.  Do i need to create a specific rule for this?  Or do i have 
> something 
> > mis-configured?  I would appreciate any help. 
> > 
>
> There's probably no rule for it. You can use the ossec-logtest program 
> to help create rules for these events. Giving us log samples can also 
> help. 
> There is definitely a possibility for misconfiguration though. Without 
> knowing how your systems are configured, it's hard to tell. 
>
> > Thanks! 
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