[Scarlett.]

but its not very clever seeing as the email could be carrying a virus

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Originally Posted by Chewy

but its not very clever seeing as the email could be carrying a virus

Generally speaking thats highly unlikely, viruses are however sent in attachments added to emails

Read emails remotely, ideally as text as opposed to as html, via something like mail 2 web, dont open attachments without scanning even if they are from trusted sources and get yourself a decent anti malware(anti virus and anti spyware) program and use it.