Is Webmail less prone to virus infections than using MS Outlook or Outlook Express?
It is known that MS email clients are more prone to viruses as most viruses are designed to attack and spread through design flaws in these programs. Use virus scanning software, especially if you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express (which are prone to sending a virus to everyone in your address book when infected). But note that Microsoft products are not the only vulnerable ones – some versions of the virus may do similar with Eudora. Though webmail is less prone to viruses, an infected email is an infected email – activate the bad content or attachment somehow and your computer will be infected. The attention to Outlook/Express and other software is only that it automatically does things with incoming mail. Up to date desktop protection should be required for every Windows computer that is connected to the Internet.
