Frenchy wrote:
Suddenly from late last week (probably after last Tuesday's MS security
updates) I am seeing Red x's in HTML messages.

Red X'x are usually caused by images that cannot be downloaded from
websites.
If this were happening to me then I'd right click in the item, and use
"View Source" to look at the HTML. In there, you'd find things like:

IMG SRC="http://swiftys.org.uk/images/Brains.gif"

If you took the address mentioned in SRC= (without enclosing quotes, if
any) and entered it into your browser, you'd either see a picture or an
error message. If you see the picture, then your problem is likely
something inside Outlook. If you don't see the picture, then it is
probably something blocking network access. Let us know.

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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk