MrKnowitall wrote:

very hard to buy into that one, you can not get the worm virus by receiving
email, In order to get it you must click on the attachment period.

The idea you can get viruses by reading e-mail is related to the
difficulty in being certain that the e-mail program in use is text
only. The e-mail program authors keep putting extra capabilities in
the programs, and adding this to the upgrades. I suspect pressure from
spammers and big business who want to send advertisements (certainly
not the users with any sense).

Result? Big, wide open, back door for mal-ware.