Anti Virus Protection vs. Intrusion Detection

["John" <john_yu () excite com>]

I read the thread "Anti Virus on Linux" on this group recently where a
number of anti-virus software recommendations were made.

Naive question. What's the difference between what Snort does with
rule matching vs. what an anti-virus gateway (ala Symantec & McAfee)
does with virus signature matching? I suspect Snort doesn't do MIME
extraction, decoding & decompression, but what are the other
differences? Are they complementary?

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