Where have my pictures gone?

lemontree

I use Mozilla Firefox. An Email came via Outlook Express showing one picture and saying some pictures had been stopped so my Computer would not be identified.
To download pictures please click here. I did this and nothing seemed to happen.
Where are the pictures now?
Any help would be appeciated with simple instructions as I am not very Technical as you may have noticed!

innovate

aqua wrote:

I use Mozilla Firefox. An Email came via Outlook Express showing one picture and saying some pictures had been stopped so my Computer would not be identified.
To download pictures please click here. I did this and nothing seemed to happen.
Where are the pictures now?
Any help would be appeciated with simple instructions as I am not very Technical as you may have noticed!

Are you sure this wasn't some scam or phishing email? The "....some pictures had been stopped so my Computer would not be identified" would ring alarm bells with me because your computer doesn't get identified by pictures you receive!

Was it an email that you expected?

It's generally not a good idea to click on anything in any email that you haven't been expecting, or that you don't know is 100% from a reputable source. One click could download rather nasty stuff to your machine.........

If you haven't run your virus checker since you klicked on that email, better run one now.

lemontree

These are pictures sent from China by my daughter but thanks for comments and warnings.

Toxteth_OGrady

Get your daughter to register for a free Photobucket account. She can then upload them to her online Photobucket album and you can download them from there.

:cool:

TOG

redux

innovate wrote:

Are you sure this wasn't some scam or phishing email? The "....some pictures had been stopped so my Computer would not be identified" would ring alarm bells with me because your computer doesn't get identified by pictures you receive!

Was it an email that you expected?

It's generally not a good idea to click on anything in any email that you haven't been expecting, or that you don't know is 100% from a reputable source. One click could download rather nasty stuff to your machine.........

If you haven't run your virus checker since you klicked on that email, better run one now.

This may be slightly too alarmist. If you are using Windows XP, and it is up to date, all html format emails come like this in OE nowadays.

Contrary to what you say, the computer can be indirectly identified by content in some html-format email messages. The method is by the use of what are sometimes called web beacons which have a similar function to cookies. If the email was clicked on, or even viewed in the preview pane, then the sender might receive notice that the message had been viewed, and depending on other feedback - the email address the message was sent to, tallied with unique identifiers in the image file ..... spammers could have sent out large numbers of emails to made up addresses, and get confirmation of valid ones.

So in fact comments about phishing are close to the mark, and this is the reason why people used to warn about html emails and Microsoft have now done this.

In the OP's case, if the message is from a known source, it may just be mainly text with one or two smilies in it, rather than large size actual pictures.

If it's from an unknown source, don't view the images, don't click the links in it, and especially do not open .zip and .exe attachments.

edit - I spent so long writing this, with an interruption, that I see the OP has replied that this case is not a security issue at all - but I'll leave it for any other interested readers to add to.