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Outlook Express, viewing photo attachment as slide, click next - goes to porn pix

This is probably a known Outlook Express bug / virus. But I didn't know how to search for it -- "OE, next photo, porn"?

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in Outlook Express, when the guy clicks on a photo / email attachment, it opens ACDSee (a slideshow). He clicks next. He gets porn pix and webpage logo photos -- which are NOT the next attachments.

I assumed this was an ACDSee thing -- that it was scanning his temp internet files for any photos. However --

EVen when I switched his default viewer to Windows Picture and Fax viewer, AND cleaned out temp internet files, we still got same problem. So I noted the "porn photo" filenames (and the chick's bust size), and searched for the porn pix file names on his HD - -they were not found. (I searched hidden dirs too)

NOTE - -this does NOT happen when we view photos from "My Pictures" folder. IN My Pictures, clicking "next" only cycles thru the pictures in immediate directory.

But in Outlook Express, from an attached photo, it goes to a porn picture. It does NOT go to the next attachment.

Anyone know what's going on?

(We did adaware and spybot scans, and a partial AV scan. PC was doing full AV hard drive scan when I when left, but this sounds like an OE special thing.)

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rairdonm

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rairdonm

trust me, use these programs before you try a million free programs and manual registry edits.

rairdonm

p.s. when that's all said and done, delete .tmp and internet files. clear cache, check BHO's, etc etc.

do msconfig (Start > Run > type "Msconfig" > [enter]...verify startup items are clean (be careful, this edits the registry) and legit.

If you need help with specific items, post 'em

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sorry for double post, but C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 path only work in W2k and later. for win9x you have to go to c:\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5

cheers!

whoiam55

I'm extremly sorry for triple post, but my answer won't be complete without. ACDsee and M$ fax and pic viewer look into the current dir you are viewing picture form, so when you open an attachment and press next. it open recently extracted images from temp dir, and as I said above those files will not delete when you clear your cache. and for not founding that file on your computer while searching, if you using XP, you have to choose a saperate option to look into hidden and system folder (just in case if you don't know), but you will never find those files with the same name as they come in attachment as windows change it's name to some random name before extracting them to temp dir(never understand why?) (however you can find the name of file in the titlebar of ACDSee)

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