All of a sudden this is happening and my photos are being deleted.  How can the photos have a virus?  I stood in my room, snapped a photo with my iPhone, immediately emailed it to my laptop, opened my Hotmail/outlook email account, opened the email I just sent myself with the new picture, but when I try to save the picture to my laptop so I can print it, I get that message at the bottom:  "photo.jpg contacted a virus and was deleted." 

So this means I can no longer send photos to my laptop via email.

How can that photo have contacted a virus?

I am losing all the new photos I have taken, lost when I prompt outlook/Hotmail to save them.  Bummer.  Please help.