|when I try receive an email that is supposed to have photos or pictures with it
| Tony

Reading email in HTML mode is a BAD idea.
cache 
of http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
+spamminess++security-issues

Aside from the fact that this opens you to more spam
(and other nefarious behaviour), http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Marketing/web_bug.html
it has already been noted that you do things
which increase the probability that you will get
(indeed, have gotten) your box infected.
HTML email is yet another way that happens.

I'll bet you are also using the LEAST SECURE email client ever made
--what I call "Outbreaks in Excess"--and using it in a non-secured manner.
There are MANY email programs which are better:
cache 
of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients
+Free+thunderbird+opera+eudora+pegasus
Any of those can import all your old stuff.


The SMART way to handle images (security-wise, bandwidth-wise, and otherwise)
is for the person who wants to share them
to park them on a server somewhere (there are TONS of photo-sharing sites)
and include in the message a short description and a LINK to the image.
(I find the vast majority of Internet-related images to be worthless indulgences
which waste my bandwidth, hard drive space, and time.)

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