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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. Eat SPAM too? by zx-6e · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now if it also filters out SPAM, it would become the hottest device on the market.