GPU can be used to speed up Anti-virus but...

[Seero]

It can also speed up virus itself...
From Hexus.net

 

[WelshBloke]

We've been told on multiple occasions that GPGPU computing is the future and that the massive parallelism of graphics-cards can speed up a huge number of tasks. However, researchers have now come up with a slightly more malicious use for all of that processing power - GPU-assisted malware.

Well flash does run on the GPU now.


:$ sorry.

 

[lifeblood]

Oh, goody, now Symantec can create an even more bloated virus scanner that brings your video card to it's knees along with your hard drive and CPU. (I've never forgiven them for the crapware that was version 10 of their anti-virus software.)

I wish the use of GPU's to assist in computing would hurry up, it holds such promise. Now that IE, Firefox, and Adobe use it hopefully others will get the hint. Hopefully they won't use it as an excuse for bloated or sloppy code.

 

[Schadenfroh]

now Symantec can create an even more bloated virus scanner that brings your video card to it's knees

Symantec has resolved the performance issues and bloat as of NAV2009 (it is as lean as AVG and Antivir now), Mcafee on the other hand is still an abomination.

 

[jones377]

Are there any virus scanners that will scan multiple hard drives at once? I find that scanning only takes up about 20% or so of my CPU while being completely I/O limited. So this GPU acceleration feature seems totally useless.

 

[dguy6789]

Are there any virus scanners that will scan multiple hard drives at once? I find that scanning only takes up about 20% or so of my CPU while being completely I/O limited. So this GPU acceleration feature seems totally useless.

Exactly what I want to know. I have several hard drives and the anti virus is limited by the drive, not the CPU. Scanning multiple drives at once would leverage extra CPU time and make the whole process go much quicker.

 

[shangshang]

Antivirus programs should step it up