Security Management White Papers
Hash-AV: Fast Virus Signature Scanning by Cache-Resident Filters
Overview Fast virus scanning is becoming increasingly important in today's Internet. While Moore's law continues to double CPU cycle speed, virus scanning applications fail to ride on the performance wave due to their frequent random memory accesses. This paper proposes Hash-AV, a virus scanning "Booster" technique that aims to take advantage of improvements in CPU performance. Using a set of hash functions and a bloom filter array that fits in CPU second-Level (L2) caches, Hash-AV determines the majority of "No-match" cases without accesses to main memory. The on-access scanner can examine input data at a throughput of over 200Mb/s, making it suitable for network-based virus scanning.
| Publisher | Stanford University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | June 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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