Is this computer causing hullucinations?

[dogwomble]

OK, got a bizarre one for you.

Got a 'pewter here where some email has received that contains some attached (non-pr0n) images. Now, we pull open an image and, when we start scrolling through them with the Windows Image Viewer thingy that comes with WinXP, we start seeing some very funny things. We start seeing advertising material for Norton products, and some lovely little pr0n images that were not attached to the email.

Thinking it was some sort of caching issue, I cleared out all the Temp folders I could find and also cleared out the Temporary Internet Files. No joy - same thing. Thinking it was pulling files from some other directory, I tried doing a search on some of the file names that appear in the title bar. They don't exist. I've run AdAware with the latest spyware signatures. Nothing found.

Now, I'm sure like a lot of us here, a bit of pr0n every now and again isn't bad. However, this pr0n I have been asked to delete - yet it's very hard to delete pr0n that I can't find.

Any suggestions as to how I should go about furthering this pr0n hunt? And no, I will not be posting it to ZGeek - unless you pay us $5,000 ransom.

[mccorski]

Do you get the same images if you forward the email to another computer?? The only thing I can think of is some temporary Windows directory, like the uninstal ones...those with no apparent real names or files...

[Al]

Back up the email, uninstall the email prog and try again...

Try with different email...

Search for all image files and try to locate a match (long and painful).

That's all I can come up with at the mo.

[Asmodeus]

were these images you saw before or have any recollection of?

the windows image viewer is notorious for grabbing all the images in a given directory (in your case, some temp directory stashed somewhere).

Since you aren't finding the file names, i'd figure ther in one of the hidden IE temp folders. to a clear cookies, clear all files in IE and try it again and see what happens. be sure to click 'all offline content' when you clear teh files