Yoggie Pico Personal Security Appliance

[Ian]

When I was shopping on play.com, I noticed something called the "Yoggie Pico Personal Security Appliance":

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3476834/-/Product.html

Apparently, it's a hardware based security system. The specs say it has a 520Mhz processor, runs linux and has the following features:

Firewall - Linux IP Tables
IPS/IDS - Snort
VPN
Anti Virus - Kaspersky
HTTP Proxy
FTP Proxy
SMTP Proxy
POP3 Proxy
Anti Spyware - Kaspersky
Anti Spam - Mailshell
Content Filtering - SurfControl
Anti Phishing - Mailshell
L-8 Security Engine TM
Multi-Layer Security Agent TM
Adaptive Security Policy TM

I've never heard of anything like this before, and wondered if anyone here had any first hand experience?

Assuming the license keeps running (i.e. not like the normal Kaspersy 1 year license) and that it speeds the system up somewhat by offloading these tasks, then it seems pretty darn clever.

edit: Turns out it can't scan local drives, only web/network traffic... so you'd still need a normal AV running to be safe. Bummer.

Found a review here too : http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8368967523.html