I use Avast! (yarrr!!!), and while I like it in general, the e-mail checking component of it significantly slows down my e-mail program. Pulling down e-mails takes much longer than it should, and sometimes the computer will kind of freeze up for a second while it’s doing it. It’s also extremely suspicious of eFax for some reason, and I haven’t figured out how to stop it from popping up a huge warning every time I get one.
If I just turn off the e-mail component, am I at any huge risk? Most virus e-mails are pretty easy to spot just from the subject line so I never even click on them, and even if I do, I"m certainly not going to open an attachment in one.