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Does an antivirus also scan for viruses targetting other OSes other than the one it runs on?
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Mar 15, 2026752 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Today my company has some external support personnels coming over and 1 of them bought a thumb drive containing the files for the fix to the driver problems. The IT manager of my company requested for the thumb drive and ran it through 1 of the Windows computer's antivirus, before clearing them to …
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I cannot say about all consumer antivirus products, but most of them scan for all threats on all platforms, since they have a unified database of virus/malware signatures, which is used by all products, regardless of the platform. For example: Micro…
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