Many thanks for your suggestions, SRS. I'm not running Yahoo stuff, so it can't be that. When I click on properties, the only details that come up are my own computer details. Each photo has a flickr number, but when I did a search of a couple of these on the Flickr website, nothing came up.

It's really strange, because it looks to me as if these pics are all coming from the same camera: two separate lots of car rallies, separate sets of family photos with the same people in them. They've also obviously recently been on a camping trip - looks to me like the New Forest - they took lots of photos of the ponies and they had a rather smart blue tent !

Another thought: I have wireless broadband - could it be that these pics are being picked up on my computer from someone else nearby ?

Now I know what's happening, I'm going to check every day and delete any new pics that appear in the "recently changed" section, so that they don't clog up my computer space.

What I find so strange is that the photos don't appear at all in my saved pictures section.

Has anyone else here had this problem ?

Many thanks,
- jeanie