In some emails I am getting the message 'some pictures have been blocked to
prevent the sender from identifying your computer' what's going on here?
Is it one of my my security settings or what that is causing this to happen?

TIA

B.W.

It is a security issue that has been around since SP2 was added to XP. When
you see that prompt, just click on it to see the pictures.

If you want to have the pictures always displayed automatically, go to Tools
| Options | Security and uncheck: "Block Images............". If you do,
and you get HTML spam, your address may be verified just by opening the
message, hence the security option.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"B.W." (del xxx) wrote in message
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In some emails I am getting the message 'some pictures have been blocked
to prevent the sender from identifying your computer' what's going on
here? Is it one of my my security settings or what that is causing this to
happen?

TIA

B.W.

"B.W." (del xxx) schrieb:

In some emails I am getting the message 'some pictures have been blocked to
prevent the sender from identifying your computer' what's going on here?

Those are HTML mails which don't contain the pictures but links to the
"pictures" on a web server:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...eb/sp2_oe.mspx

Bye,
Freudi

"B.W." (del xxx) wrote in message
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In some emails I am getting the message 'some pictures have been
blocked to prevent the sender from identifying your computer' what's
going on here?

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug.

Is it one of my my security settings

Yep. Did you look? What did you find that looks relevant to blocking
Internet (i.e., external) content?