What distros for a security appliance?

I'm looking at setting up a hardware firewall again.. moving away from
routers.. had a smoothwall for some time a few yrs back.. but now want
a machine to handle all security.. what Distro offers this.. would be
looking at buying frisk's linux virus program.. is this the place to
ask?
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