What happens,IF you have a virus detection program loaded. When you access the e-mail, the virus protection program will notify you that the message has an infection. It will then ask you what you want to do...delete - clean If you choose the "Clean" option, it will clean the e-mail to where you can read it, the confusion here is that it cleans the temporary file that the system opens for you to read but does not actually clean the e-mail message itself. The best advice is that if the virus protection program detects a virus is to delete the message and notify the sender. So, no, the virus programs do not clean e-mail. But they can/do notify you if a message has an infection before you open it and possibly prevent the infection of your machine. Cindy _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com