[arcticsid]

I'd appreciate any help on this. Today I opened an e mail from a family member. Included were for photos sent as individual attachments.4 of them.I viewed the first phot first, without saving it to a folder on my machine. It opened in Windows picture and Fax Viewer. It opened successfully, and the AVG virus protection indicated no threats detected. I instinctly clicked on the forward button, not thinking there wouldn't be another photo, I only downloaded the one. Well what it did forward to was small thumbnail images that I recognized as icons, images etc. from web sites I may have visited. I was able to identify some as being a "default" file. So I did a search of "*default" and the computer listed 300 or so, most of these were small files between 1KB to 6KB in size, some were PNG images, some were listed as XML documents, and some other things I didnt recognize. I was not able to delete any of these. I have no idea what they are or why they would have opened while viewing a photo on Win Pic/Fax viewer. Does anyone have any idea what these files are and wheter or not they're safe to delete? And if so how do I delete them? After the search I clicked on edit and selected all, then I clicked on file but was not able to click delete, it wanted me to extract them. I am really at a loss on this one. I am sorry to have made this question so long but am trying to provide as much info to you as I can.

Thanks alot for any thoughts.

Arctic Sid

[LincolnSpector]

Hi, Arctic Sid.

Could you tell us what email program you're using, and exactly what you did?

Some of what you describe contradict each other. For instance, you say that you "viewed the first phot first, without saving it to a folder on my machine." Later, you said that "I only downloaded the one."

My guess is that you're using a POP email program like Outlook for Outlook Express. When you open an attachment in these programs, they often save a copy of the file in a temporary folder and open that copy. What you saw when you clicked the Next button were other images in the temp folder.



Lincoln

[arcticsid]

Thanks for the reply Lincoln, I was wondering if had something to do wihh temp folders. I have recently learned how to delete these to clear up space. I am using yahoo mail. What I ment by "downloading, was I downloaded it and viewed it, I did not click the option to scan and save to computer, after I seen the "next" images I was able to identify some as having "default" in there titles thats when Iearched for files/folders with "*default", I had never seen any files like these as was wondering if they were safe to delete and how to do it.

I appreciate you thinking about me, any thing else you can think of is greatly appreciated.

ArcticSid

[LincolnSpector]

Arctic Sid--

Please tell us what program you're using to access your email.



Lincoln

[VladTheImpaler1990]

Hey what he means acid, are you using Internet Explorer, mozilla or so on.

It could have been a virus that you opened while you opened picture, did you do a scan after you saw this, if yes what were the results?