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Stopping Malware Before It Hits

Posted by timothy on from the every-bit-helps dept.

SpudGunMan writes "John Lockwood, Ph.D, an assistant professor of computer science at Washington University, and the graduate students that work in his research laboratory, have developed a hardware platform called the Field-programmable Port Extender (FPX) that scans for malware transmitted over a network and filters out unwanted data."

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  1. fp alliance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    join the fp alliance use this post to join

  2. You knew this was coming by orthogonal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let's get this out of the way.

    Can it scan for, uh, backdoors and block abnormally widened orifices?

    And yes, it's a goatse link. You know what's behind that link. Restrain yourself and don't click.

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    1. Re:You knew this was coming by Tim+C · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No restraint needed - once goatsed, twice shy...

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  3. mynuts won: corepirate nazi bootlicker moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    seems that way. talk about phonIE last gasper payper liesense ?pr? ?firm? scriptdead stock markup fraud execrable desperados, pretending to have anything to do with anything that really matters?

    http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson/linuxexpo/qv_016.j pg

    some are saying that ignoring stuff that really matters whilst sucking up to somebodIE else's monIE, makes you look kind of funnIE?

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    lookout bullow.