Reading an e-mail message will not infect your computer with a virus or other malware. Computer viruses, trojans, and other malware infects your computer when an e-mail attachment is ran from an e-mail.

If while reading an e-mail you double-click, run, or save any attachment and that attachment is infected with a virus your computer will then become infected.

Even if you have no intentions of running or opening e-mail attachments, we still suggest that you use an antivirus protection program on your computer.

  • What are the currently available antivirus programs?
  • See the e-mail and virus definitions for further information and related links.
  • Computer virus help and support.