Hardware-based Internet Security

[Sathish]

Hi friends,
As you know, the Best antivirus war has no ends..'
I have used several antivirus programs over the last few years Avast, AVG,Panda,Avira,Macfee and Kaspersky..
but the user's experiences are at different prospect..

Recently, I found a Hardware-based internet security provider - Yoggie Gatekeeper Pico.. (*www.yoggie.com/) and its few features are as follows; (as they said)

Yoggie Gatekeeper Personal’s 13 layers of security:

* 520 MHz CPU and 128MB memory
* Anti-Spam
* Anti-Phishing
* Antispyware
* Antivirus
* Parent Control System
* Transparent Email Proxies (POP3; SMTP)
* Transparent Web Proxies (HTTP; FTP)
* Intrusion Detection System
* Intrusion Prevention System
* Firewall

· Adaptive Security Policy™

* Multi-Layer Security Agent™ (Patent pending)

* Layer-8 Security Engine ™ (Patent pending)

* 15 minutes installation
* Prize $90
* annual renewal service fee $30.

actually i have no idea about Hardware -based security.
Pl share your suggestions and detailed information about this product..
is any drawback on this security system?

 

[swatkat]

There are many such hardware based AV/Firewalls. Actually, most of them are gateway with AV/firewall capabilities:
*www.securecomputing.com/index.cfm?skey=22&lang=en
*www.watchguard.com/products/peak.asp
*www.watchguard.com/products/gatewayav/ips.asp
*www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/fw/sqfw500/index.shtml

From Yoggie's website:

A low level driver redirects all network traffic before Windows and the laptop’s TCP/IP stack are even aware of its existence. It then scans the content and the safe content is released to the higher layers of the TCP/IP stack. This method effectively creates a NAT.

So, that card effectively acts like a gateway....

 

[Sathish]

then what about its performance in realtime.

 

[swatkat]

Not sure It should be good, otherwise people will not buy those things!!!