I woke up this morning to find something with my internet or windows is really messed up. When I go to a site like msn.com it shows nothing but a bunch of weird code, and on most other sites theres "BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB" at the top of every page, and sometimes in the middle of pages there will be snippets of this weird code.
By weird code I mean this:
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB}vƖa:-M{Lix#jE1 (dV?̿?zޤd] >kֲ)\v]7M-nPRz_Qrrsr6#E."<<< ̕[#AQZ|Y EYKSni a'j$P Gmew }ύ&k): 3Fff)9@| K1N3T-[ywl30<hejLdsEW_nq=3g*sǥ ~ $O($+~} *D 4mި_UX'pUs[R .DZ,N0|v7aW70
That's just the first couple lines of what was MSN.com. And like I said when the page isnt completely messed up "BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB" will be displayed at the top of every page (including this forum).
I encounter the problem in all browsers (IE6, Opera, and FireFox). I've scaned my computer using multiple programs and have turned up nothing, aswell as cleaned out my registry, i've also reinstalled all my browsers. When this didn't accomplish anything I performed a system restore to a week ago and the problem stayed. I even reinstalled Service Pack 2 in the hopes of it maybe restoring a missing file.
This is the second time this has happened to be, and each time it seems to be random. The last time this happened I did the follow to fix it:
Went to Internet Options>Advanced scrolled down to "HTTP 1.1 settings" and selected "Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections", applied and restarted my brower. This fixed most of my problems but some of those random code snippets still appeared, so I switched to a random encoding and then switched back to western European ISO and that fixed it.
Unfortunately the switching to different encodes didn't fix it this time, but using the http 1.1 proxy atleast allows me to see most of a webpage.
Has anyone encountered this before or know a real fix for it?
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Encoding messed up in all browsers
Started by Griffin, Apr 20 2008 09:03 PM
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Posted 20 April 2008 - 09:03 PM
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Posted 20 April 2008 - 10:21 PM
I've had this happen and it only ever happens when my cache is over full. All I do is clear the cache open the same page and it's fixed.
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Posted 21 April 2008 - 12:19 AM
Didn't seem to help. And now msn.com automatically goes to http://www.msn.com/defaultc.aspx and just shows the code again.
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Posted 21 April 2008 - 02:25 AM
I dunno then sorry, always been a cache prob for me and I cannot seem to find anything anywhere on it.
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Posted 21 April 2008 - 01:22 PM
Have you scanned for spam and viruses?
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