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What are the similarities between antivirus and ids systems?

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IDS/IPS devices and software scan network PACKETS, network traffic. ... IDS and IPS are usually network devices that inspect network packets. While an anti-virus program is a piece of software that inspects malicious files on a host device. For the most part, both use the concept of signature-based databases.

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