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what's inline AV scan & its advantages : pls suggest a couple of products

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22086234/Which-Enterprise-Anti-Virus-Solution.html
"Also agree with AVG but you should use a layered approach we put all the servers behind a firewall with
AV and IDS and 2 inline AV network boxes (Pandagate and network virus wall) ... "

Q1:
What's inline Antivirus scan mentioned above?  So it does not sit inside the endpoint
but just filtering the traffic for malware?

Q2:
In what way it's different & better (or worse) that AV solutions that sit inside the server
(in our case, it's VMs in a virtual cluster).  Inline scan is less disruptive to applications?
Chews no resource in the endpoints?

Q3:
Kindly suggest a few products that offer this inline scanning
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> - installed AV products might also use "inline" scanning for streams like web and mail content
By "installed", does it reside inside the PC or server OS?

> on SERVERS "inline"
is the above sitting inside the servers' OS as well?

In Cloud/virtual environment, an agentless AV would sit inside the hypervisor/ESXi
layer, is this considered inline?


Our Checkpoint vendor told me their blade product which acts as firewall plus IPS
could also do AV scanning : so is this inline AV scanning?
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If "inline" AV scan is in place, is file-level AV scanning still needed (ie does
"inline" scan renders traditional file level AV scan obsolete?)

I think in layered security, it's still good to have file-level AV scan on top
of inline scan unless performance of the servers/endpoint is so badly
affected, then only get exemption from file-level scan?
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