What the #@%! is up with MS Photo Viewer?

I%26#039;m getting this weird thing on my computer where if a friend sends me a picture in an attachment and I open it, Photo Viewer gives me the option to go forward and back as if through a slideshow. Going forward and back, it brings up a host of random graphics from the internet - some are recognisable graphics from web-pages or photos from sites which I have visited. Others are completely unrecognisable - photos I%26#039;ve never seen, strange icons, and once or twice the kind of photo I KNOW no one has been looking at on this computer, if you know what I mean. It%26#039;s bizarre and it%26#039;s freaking me out. Does anyone who knows more about computers than I do have an explanation for this?

What the #@%! is up with MS Photo Viewer?

Most likely its going through every picture found in your temporary internet files.

That picutre that you have never seen could have been on a popup or hidden on the site of a website.

What the #@%! is up with MS Photo Viewer?

A.) That pic includes an underlying file (Ie a Trojan Virus)

B. (more likely) it is in your local internet files folder, in which all cookies and downloaded images are stored for a few weeks. If you want it to be normal, when you get the prompt save it to your desktop.

Other Replys:Hello sir,

The problem exists because once you open an attachment, it is stored in the Temp directory. So what really happens is that any webpage or graphic element you%26#039;ve seen is stored there.

Thus, the photo viewer browses through the contents of this directory.

Emptying the temp directory might give you a proof.

I hope this helps.