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Hardware Acceleration Set To Boost ClamAV Performance

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Leading Open Source anti-virus software is all set to include hardware acceleration in its next major release.

ClamAV, one of the most popular Open Source anti-virus software, is all set to include hardware acceleration in its next major release, version 0.90, expected to be out by August this year.

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DrDubious ·
Not a lot of detail in the article, other than that Sensory Networks is developing a PCI card with hardware pattern-matching that ClamAV will support as well (for checking virus 'signatures', obviously). Could the same card be used to accelerate, for example, searches of DNA databases and other biological data?

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