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<blockquote data-quote="shmu26" data-source="post: 936937" data-attributes="member: 37647"><p>The vast majority of linux malware is targeting servers, not desktop home users. </p><p>The main point of linux AV is to detect Windows-based malware, so you don't infect a Windows machine by passing on files from linux to windows. </p><p>If you download windows malware on linux, it can't run, and thus cannot infect your dual-boot system (if you have one), but you could email it to someone, or copy it over to your windows installation. Or you could infect your virtual machine, if it is running windows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shmu26, post: 936937, member: 37647"] The vast majority of linux malware is targeting servers, not desktop home users. The main point of linux AV is to detect Windows-based malware, so you don't infect a Windows machine by passing on files from linux to windows. If you download windows malware on linux, it can't run, and thus cannot infect your dual-boot system (if you have one), but you could email it to someone, or copy it over to your windows installation. Or you could infect your virtual machine, if it is running windows. [/QUOTE]
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