On Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004, at 21:56 Canada/Eastern, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > I have an increasing problem with all kinds of spam-ish images > just appearing on my desktop. They are email attachments, mostly. [...] You don't say which OS. You don't say which e-mail client, or what kind of e-mail account. Your client may be set to save attachments automatically; it may be possible to alter this setting. Your client may be set not to download attachments or messages with attachments. Etc., etc. f