[NMLUG] Virus susceptibility?

[gars at laclinux.com (Gary Sandine)]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:16, Dan Lark wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Mike Garfias wrote:
> 
> > The *nix scanner used the same virus defs as the windows scanner.
> > 
> > Not just the same defs, the same exact definition file.
> 
> I can vouch for that. I use the CLI Linux version together with an add-on 
> for Exim to scan incoming mail. Works like a champ. I could even script 
> the def. update to boot. One more note, the linux CLI version also uses 
> the supplemental def. files that would be posted between the weekly 
> updates.

So in the Network Associates example, it was scanning Unix tarballs for
Windows viruses?  Sorry, just trying to understand (because I'm asked
about this kind of stuff quite a bit and have never heard of this
scenario)....