Originally Posted by
Akrion
I think that's kind of silly. You are more likely to get hit by a trojan by going directly to a legit website than accepting an attached image that a friend you know sent you. I'm just curious how your friends might feel if/when they're told you won't download something they sent you via email because you think they might be sending you a virus. A malicious link, for example, isn't going to be any different in an email than it would be anywhere else. Even legit websites can get hacked and redirect people going there.
Besides, emails aren't as horribly vulnerable compared to the rest of the internet as you seem to think. Sure, someone who really knows what they're doing can make an email seem 100% legit, but trust me when I say that if they're that good that isn't the only way they'll be able to get you, it's just one of the easier ways. If not properly secured, it's possible to get hit by malware imbedded within an image linked on the forums, or hell, displayed on the forum its self.
Emails are by far not the only way someone can get to you, and if you treated the internet as a whole to the extreme that you seem to treat email, then you might as well disconnect your modem.