first of all most virus are written to attack windows platform since it is majority in usage , these antivirus that are available can be used to scan exe files also so you can scan your windows executable files under linux environment also and there are root kits that are exclusively made for linux , they can also able to identify them .
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:59 PM, NIKHIL BANSAL <[email protected]>wrote: > This is a question I want to ask after I surprisingly found some > antivirus packages in my fedora repository. what is the basic purpose > of these antivirus package as some of them described as for online > attachment scanning. what if I don't have installed these packages ? > > -- > LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- -Vengadanathan "I am ready to change the world , but no one is ready to give the source code .." -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
