If you familiar with the things in the pendrive i suspect you could differentiate the kind of virus that might be executable. There's is clamav, avg, VirusHammer for linux that you can try :) In linux is the best way you can save your pendrive that has been infected <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2008 at 8:32 AM, <a href="mailto:michaelpo@gmail.com">michaelpo@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:michaelpo@gmail.com">michaelpo@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Antivirus for Linux is necessary to help Windows. Let's say a pendrive is infected with virus, plug into linux, it will not affect linux. Linux can help clean the virus. Then when the pendrive is plug into windows, no more virus to destroy windows. On Jan 4, 2008 12:16 AM, Nicholas Ng <<a href="mailto:nbliang@gmail.com">nbliang@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > There are various antivirus available but the most popular one is > ClamAV, which is also an open source project. > > As many Linux users will ask, why do you need an antivirus for in > Unix/Linux environment? So far there is no "actual" virus attacking in > Linux environment and you will be safe from viruses if you are using > Linux. > > Cheers, > > Nicholas Ng > > On Jan 3, 2008 9:06 PM, rick <<a href="mailto:cwyong1@streamyx.com">cwyong1@streamyx.com</a>> wrote: > > Hi. > > I am new to ubuntu and i would like to know which antivirus would you > > recommend. > > > > Thank you > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-my mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-my@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-my@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-my" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-my</a> > > > > -- > Ubuntu-my mailing list > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-my@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-my@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-my" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-my</a> > -- Ubuntu-my mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-my@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-my@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-my" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-my</a> </blockquote></div> -- OSS'ers