"cmsix" <cmsix@storiesonline.org> wrote in message
news:AjV7h.16805$B31.14487@newssvr27.news.prodigy. net...
>
> Is it fair to say that the best two single things you can do to protecte
> youself are turn off reading html email and use a browser that doesn't say
> Internet Explorer?
>
>

Move to an email provider that scans attachments for viruses before
depositing the emails into your inbox. My particular email provider scans
each item with two separate antivirus systems. My own computer then scans
all items in my inbox with AVG Anti-Virus, making three separate scans of
all inbox attachments before I can open them.

While no solution is bullet-proof, I have not had an email virus in two
years. Before I changed to my current email provider, AVG was neutralizing
email-borne viruses at a rate of at least one per week, sometimes more.

These days, email providers offer anti-virus scanning so routinely that one
should not even bother to consider using any email provider that doesn't
offer that protection.