THANKS DAVIDR! Much appreciated.
I have long been extremely weary of attachments, even from people I know & I agree with everything you said.
Maybe I am slow but I am still a bit confused...
I always thought that if an attachment was in fact malware of sort, that saving it , WITHOUT opening it could also allow it to run. Do you agree or disagree with that?
I still do scan all attachments after saving them however.
Also, Pondus said that Avast scans all attachments, even without opening them.
So, if I am understanding all of the opinions correctly,
-AVAST will scan all attachments
-Just in case AVAST misses something, save it, scan it, then open it
-And, even if the above is happens, you never know