Ohh no.. I can relate to that. We had a virus not too long ago.. I lost a lot of photos. But luckily, many were on my Photobucket account, so I just re-saved the ones that I wanted.. heck, it helped "clean house" and get rid of many I didn't need.. but now I make backup photo disks periodically so if this thing does get infected, I can at least salvage something.
I am glad that you were able to save the pics.. I know that some are priceless..