I think there should be some kind of filter for new posts. I used to go to each forum to view topics but I find the View New Posts link better. However there is one big problem, for every one "normal" topic there's at least 20 Malware topics coming from the Infections/Removal forum. And since it's 1on1 help, and of course locked to anyone but malware helpers, there's no point in viewing these posts. If all of them could be filtered out, it would be a lot easier to actually see what topics I could help in.

Any type of filter would work, whether it automatically doesn't show them based on whether the user has posting priviliges in that forum, or if you can just sort topics based on what board they are from, and infections are put in the back.