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that inbox is located on the web server though. there is a difference. hotmail’s mail is also scanned before making it to your inbox. But that inbox is located on hotmail’s server. You are only viewing the mail in Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, etc. POP mail works differently. The messages are downloaded to your computer.
I’ll say though… Ive used both Hotmail and Yahoo at times over the years, and many different virus scanners. Norton did detect viruses as mail came in (edit: using Outlook Express) … avast does as well. you ARE protected, See Eddys remark here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=8583;start=msg70448#msg70448