Shoutbox

Only attachments can contain potential virusses. And then again, you need to explicitly execute them. Simply opening and reading an email will not give you any virus (unless you always automatically execute attachments, but if you have that setting I very strongly recommend to unset it; it is equally dangerous as automatically executing everything automatically what you've downloaded from the net). Hence checking emails for virusses is rather pointless (unless the mail contains an attachment).

Also anti-virus tools will not protect you against spam mails which contain personalised links (or photo's, which often ARE loaded automatically!) as described in my first post in this thread.