It's all I've heard of too - though I suppose you run it in wine or a container, or even a traditional VM for that matter (just limited to scanning the mounted volume, not processes etc.) - I just wanted to keep it open and didn't think there was any point splitting the 'yes' vote.
ClamAV runs natively in linux. AV typically hashes files and matches them against a known database. It's not doing something that is only possible in windows
