A few questions... What browser are you using? Do you have a firewall installed?(it could block images) What sites are you trying to view images from?
What website are you on? In Firefox, go under Tools->Options->Content and tick the box "Load Images Automatically". In Opera, it's Tools->Preferences->Web Pages tab(second from right)->Images and select "Show Images".
You don't want to do that, especially if you have no router. Disable parental controls and, if enabled, whatever ad-blocking they presently use. I recommend getting rid of Norton's at the first opportunity. It's the worst product suite available. You'd be better off with AVG or NOD32 for anti-virus and Comodo, Kerio, Outpost, or Jetico for a firewall.
@Dunker.. What you don't want to do, is step on other people's toes when they are helping others figure out where the underlying issue lies. Disabling, or in your words, completely uninstalling the firewall would be what in who's eyes? The EXACT SAME THING. People need to know what is causing the issues they face with the knowledge of those that have faced the situation before. Confusion sets in when "finite" solutions of "you must do this, and you must do that" before anyone gets to the root of the issue isn't always the best option to provide an individual. Hence my suggestion, of disabling the firewall and testing the web pages to see if they load. It would have presented Angels76 with a possible cause should the images show up as normal. and yeah....I agree, I don't use anything from Norton or Symantec.
It's not stepping on anyone's toes to advise them not to take bad advice: Disabling the firewall outright is one of the worst things you can do, especially since the firewall itself, barring some unsual configuration, would cause the problems the OP is having. Moreover, your lack of an attempt to resolve intermediary issues that don't require disabling or removal of the firewall - specifically, disabling of parental controls and/or ad-blocking, which is usually the cause of problems like this - indicate a lack of knowledge of how these things work. One of the biggest problems presented by "all-in-one" security suites like Norton's is that they try to do too much (none of it well, by the way) but these problems can usually be ameliorated or fixed entirely by disabling the offending component. Put another way, it is not usually the "firewall" proper that is the problem, it's the other crapola. But in the event it is the firewall - and, we agree that Symantec sucks anyway - then I have presented the OP with advice as to quality, viable, and even free replacements. That's not stepping on anyone's toes - that's helping them fix the problem the right way.
so why is it such a big deal to spend 1 minute turning off the firewall testing a webpage and turning it back on? that would have been my first idea.
Because it only take a second or two to conduct a network-based attack. If, for instance, you allow NBT-based filesharing - and it's enabled on most Windows systems by default - then not having a firewall potentially allows any shares you may have open to be accessible by those on the outside. This is generally not a problem if you are behind a firewall (like in a router, windows firewall, etc.) but CAN be a serious problem without some form of protection. Asking a user to disable their firewall right off the bat - without addressing other potential causes - is somewhat akin to asking them to disable their antivirus so they can run this little program they just downloaded off of a p2p network - it's not wise, and certainly not the preferred course of action, even for diagnostic purposes. The problem with "all-in-one" suites like Norton's, McAfee's, and even Outpost to a lesser extent, as I said before, is that it's usually the other junk that causes problems like this. Since few people enable IP filtering in their firewalls, it vastly more likely to be the fault of Parental Controls or Ad-blocking than it is the firewall itself. And even if the firewall proper is the problem, it makes more sense to at least have a backup plan ready (i.e. another firewall) than just drop your first line of defense altogether, regardless of how briefly to may do so.
