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For home computer users, checking email has become a potentially hazardous business, an Indian publication has warned.
An article for web resource the Indian eNews has highlighted the dangers posed by receiving HTML emails, rather than plain text.
"Increasingly today, we all send and receive email in HTML format, which means that we are all the more vulnerable to contracting a potentially destructive computer virus just by reading our mail," it explained.
As HTML emails can allow programmes to run, they can upload worms and other malware into a machine, it continued.
However, people can guard against such threats by ensuring they are using up-to-date anti-virus software, the article added.
The India Legal Information Institute claims that cybercrime such as malware development is on the rise in the country.
However, it suggests many people do not report it and so a "sense of complacency" has arisen.
It claims that one survey showed only 50 of every 500 cybercrimes committed in India are reported, with only one of those being registered.
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