antivirus

Hello every one I am dual Booting Linux and windows in one of my machines and a Samba shared folder Recently my windows machine (main and secondary) had a virus attack and was succesfully remved by antivirus . And I want to check that some cross platform virus had entered the linux machine ...

First I should apoligize if this is a dumb question:). As I know Linux is the safest OS , but I saw few articles that Linux isn't completely safe bcz it is becoming an increasingly attractive target for malwares and viruses. Windows has hundreds of anvirus softwares like Avast, Kaspersky etc...

MODERATOR'S NOTE: This thread's author is new Member, @Incruste2.0 , please address all responses to him. I made a mistake somewhere, regrets. Wizard G'day Incriste, and Welcome to linux.org I have used Linux for 6 years I use NO antivirus (not necessary) I use Firefox browser. It is...