Antivirus Software for Multi-OS Malware

[Creedyou]

Do antivirus scanning tools detect viruses for OSs other than the one the tool is executing on? For example, will ClamAV for Linux detect a Windows or Mac virus? I am thinking yes because the signature database is populated with the signatures of all OSs so the antivirus tool reads the same database regardless of platform it is running on.

 

[mechBgon]

From my observations, it would be more likely than not, but companies won't necessarily all have the same policies.