I have heard of hardware firewalls, but not hardware virus scanners. Do they exist? And if not, why not?
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I have heard of hardware firewalls, but not hardware virus scanners. Do they exist? And if not, why not?
Yes!
You can get antivirus hardware for a pretty price which scans the packets as they enter/leave a network. Symantec are one such company who produce them (suprise suprise :)).
http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/hard...0272398,00.htm