ClamAV: PUA.Win.Exploit.CVE_2012_0110 FOUND (/usr/share/mime/mime.cache)

This is probably just a false positive. /usr/share/mime/mime.cache is a generated file of all known mime types on your system. It's not an executable.

Virus scanners detect malicious software by sets of known fingerprints (hashes). This model leads to some false positives, inevitably. Perhaps it's a coincedence a known Windows virus matches the fingerprint as found on a Linux system, perhaps it's because the fingerprint just matches a certain MIME type pattern that will match inevitably on any Linux system...

For now, I wouldn't worry about it, but just contact the ClamAV team to ask whether this is a known issue with them already.

Also make sure to stay updated with the most recent ClamAV fingerprints (freshclam).

I had the same (cache PUA.Win.Exploit.CVE_2012_0110) on my Linux.

So I booted up from the USB or DISK instillation > To the try Linux mint out, > looked for the file in ( /usr/share/mime/mime.cache) and copped it to a USB stick. Logged back on to my installed Linux mint, and replaced the one on my sys, with the one I copped to my USB stick ( Now it no longer detected as a virus)