Why don't pictures show when I visit websites?

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I'm having the same problem on myspace. It started out of the blue tuesday or wednesday last week, Nov. 21 or nov.22. I can't view any pics, photos, either my own or any of my friends. I tried everything. I even updated to Internal explorer 7 and still no luck. It only on myspace on my home computer, I got back to work for thanksgiving holiday, and I had no problems with myspace on my work computer. I even try to comparing the settings on my work computer and my home computer and nothing. I emailed myspace twice, first time I got a response that they working on it and be patient, the second response was suggestions on how to download images, which isn't the problem. If any one can help yet me know

For around 12 months now i've had the problem on myspace with only red x's showing in place of pictures. At first it wasnt all pictures- some still worked, others didnt. These days none of the pictures work at all, i tried following these steps, installed the new IE7 and even downloaded firefox to see if it was any different on there- it wasnt. And yet on any other computer i access myspace on it works perfectly. Ive emailed myspace about it, but they just said it was a problem with my computer, nothing to do with them.

Thanks everyone, I thought maybe it was just me. The xxxx's started showing up on my page as well (MYSPACE). What is going on? They really need to fix it. Yeah it started happening to me around thankgiving. Thanks everybody!! I now know I'm not crazy

The problem appears to involve NORTON INTERNET SECURITY's "Personal FireWall". The same thing happened to me with eBay.com and Dell.com. Disabling Norton's firewall cures the problem, but presents questions, and, of course, you can not connect a Windows-based PC to the internet with hardware firewall, software firewall, and content inspection services.

Although I managed network security policies for a government network for 6 years, and an Internet provider for 12 years, I have not been able to resolve this broken image issue yet. It may be a new Windows viruses or malware. At first I thought is was because I have restricted thousands of IPs and IP blocks in my firewall and router (and even routers up stream) to help limit some small portion of the spyware and malewares embedded in Windows-based PCs and Windows applications, and the fact that some web applications pull content from source foreign to the root domain. But it's something else!

MicroSoft Windows has averaged over 1,400 new viruses and malwares per day over the last 6 years. Using a Windows-based PC has become virtually impossible, even for security experts supplied with millions of dollars of resources. Over 90% of your time on the system will be managing firewalls, making updates, and wasting entire days as I have with this issue. Thanks to MicroSoft, the Internet has become a kind of X@$&y*!

At last count, there were nearly 500,000 Windows-related viruses, spywares, and malware ... and those are only the “known” ones. If you own a Windows-based PC, you do not have a hardware firewall with both intrusion and containment capabilities, and most of your time is not spent managing security, your unit is most certainly infected to gills!

An example of MS stupidity and irresponsiblity was "Code Red" and "Code Blue". Sounds technical, but Code Red was a web virus that infected nearly 800,000 Windows IIS Web Servers in under a week, thanks to MicroSoft which put all the server administration in an open web directory by default. Just type in the domain/IP and path, and anyone on the Internet could have full and total control over the server. The number of open MicroSoft exploits has increased exponentially since about 8 years ago, and has not slowed down.

A BETTER SOLUTION IS TO BUY AN APPLE. To my knowledge, Macs have only suffered 1 harmless virus and 1 QuickTime issue (of course QuickTime, like Media Player, has always been spyware on Windows). You see, with Unix/Linux nothing can be installed without user intervention. That’s “real” security. Unix/Linux is opensource, Windows is a compiled “black box” ... D A R K !

I recently dusted off my 14 year old Mac IIci and showed by fellow IT staff, and they were astonished that such technology could have existed so many years before MS even had a GUI.

Excuse please, should have read "you can not connect a Windows-based PC to the internet WITHOUT a hardware firewall, software firewall, and content inspection services. "

O.K., as for eBay.com and Dell.com, the image links are all routed through connections to the same IP block. Blocking this range may also restrict many other web sites that route connections through these servers. The block is: 64.212.198.0 - 64.212.198.255. Allowing connections to these IPs cures the problem, but my systems have detected illicit connections utilizing IPs within this block. GOOD LUCK !

When I go to http://sc.lugdunum.net:9130/ (the ONLY site this ocurrs at), all images will load on the FIRST page load only. Click a link, and images come up broken. The site worked for earlier versions of IE, it works for Firefox.

If I delete temp files, the site is good for one more page load, then only broken images. What gives? Why does IE7 not like my favorite site like this?

i think what is needed is that everyone needs to complain about the myspace red x and as for the other sites i have found that most of them work there is the odd occassion that they dont

hi
while i visit few sites on IE7 i find few image links doesnt appear in or not apper properly. Staus bar shows that still few image r to be downloded and after some time still few images doesnt appear. This site works fine with IE6.
Leo can u plz help me

thank you it worked

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