Flow-Based Antivirus Overview
An SRX Series Firewall with flow-based antivirus protects your network from security attacks.
The flow-based antivirus profile scans each packet in the payload content for threats such as viruses, Trojans, rootkits, and other types of malicious code and blocks the content, if detected. If a violation is detected, a reset packet is sent to the receiver. This reset packet closes the connection and prevents the payload delivery.
For example, if a user visits a compromised website and downloads malicious content, it could harm their endpoint and other hosts in the network. So, it is important to stop the download of the malicious content.
You can use an SRX Series Firewall with flow-based antivirus to protect users from virus attacks and to stop viruses from spreading in your system. Flow-based antivirus scans network traffic for viruses, Trojans, rootkits, and other types of malicious code and blocks the malicious content right away when detected.
Benefits of Flow-Based Antivirus
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Flow-based inspection identifies and stops security threats in real-time.
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Flow-based inspection uses less processing resources than proxy-based inspection and does not change packets, unless a threat is detected and packets are blocked.