My reaction upon reading that line was "WTF." I haven't touched NIC drivers beyond the classic NE2000s, common Realteks, and the Intel 8254x, but it seems strange to have some sort of... antimalware feature in a NIC? Reminds me of the old BIOSes with "boot sector antivirus".
Probably more to do with the fact that everything is moving towards virtualization. Oftentimes these NICs dole out VFs directly to VMs via SR-IOV, in which case I imagine the NIC controller has some safeguards to keep the host and the rest of the guest's safe from denial-of-service and other attacks from a malicious guest driver.
Malicious Driver Detection
My reaction upon reading that line was "WTF." I haven't touched NIC drivers beyond the classic NE2000s, common Realteks, and the Intel 8254x, but it seems strange to have some sort of... antimalware feature in a NIC? Reminds me of the old BIOSes with "boot sector antivirus".