By “on the Internet,” may we assume that you meant, to check your mail using a Browser such as Firefox or Chrome or Safari to log into your email provider’s website and review your email? Or did you mean to include, using a 3rd-party email program like Thunderbird (Mozilla) or even Micro$oft Office Outlook?

This user would like to read, what are the security implications of using the browser+WWWeb GUI of your email provider?Can Avast! Mail Shield protect us from malware in our email when the email is read in the local browser on a commercial ISP’s site, such as Comcast or Yahoo! or AOL?