...but if the message contains a virus, then I should be protected from the sender's message exposing me to a virus, and I'll accuse the e-mail provider of negl

...but if the message contains a virus, then I should be protected from the sender's message exposing me to a virus, and I'll accuse the e-mail provider of negligence if they don't scan attachments in my messages for known viruses. I'm not sure if I should be "stunned" by the admission that users shouldn't expect this kind of privacy, since e-mail is really nothing like postal mail as the article asserts, in the sense of packages being processed, delivered as-is and left unopened in the condition they were sent.