What's Up With FreeRepublic home page. Computer gibberish only (is it just me?)

Van Ity ^ | November 20, 2004 | Van Ity

[BJungNan]

The below is what I am getting when I click on the FreeRepublic link at the top of the page. Is it me? Is anyone else seeing this? What is it?

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[BJungNan]

Cool. That link helped a lot. Now I have a floating image of Britney Spears taking her clothes off dancing around my computer screen. The gibberish is still there but who cares. Whoops, she did it again.

[Positive]

"x1¶tHx›Á‡Ø°¤OìÕ&3ñ÷{!Õ¦ÛëZú,`ÐÛ yb M
¦ywˆãài¾~ÔvLo¨6µ£HK€v ÂzX5…"

Here's your problem. If you change the section underlined above to "÷{!Õ¦ÛëZú" (omit the quotes), it should run fine.

[humblegunner]

All your ÄàjL6­I?3n΋ÈçöÞéã¤ñ™Û are belong to us.
You have no chance to survive, make your ÄàjL6­I?3n΋ÈçöÞéã¤ñ™Û

[OSHA]

But, some of you actually offered help....

Don't trust 'em. They're just screwing with your head!

[Positive]

Sorry, the !Õ should have been Õ!.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

If you have a dead chicken hanging upside down in your front porch, I'd say you really have a problem!

[Focault's Pendulum]

Sorry, the !Õ should have been Õ!.

Finally! A key to the Hebrew Codex.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

You lost your decoder ring again?

[Route101]

Put the joint down......

[Rocko]

Looks like Maureen Dowd's latest column.

No human technology could decode a Maureen Dowd column.

[Chode]

if you broke FreeRepublic... you're in a heap of trouble!!!

[Question Liberal Authority]

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Looks like Al Gore's giving another speech.

[Not A Snowbird]

Slowly, carefully... step away from the computer. They see you.

[uglybiker]

You shouldn't have posted that.

Somebody's coming over to talk to you about insulting their Mother.

[Capitalism2003]

Make sure you don't have spyware screwing with your browser.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1284069/posts

[BJungNan]

Make sure you don't have spyware screwing with your browser.

I use Ad Aware but lately when I scan my computer it is coming back completely clean - which can not be. What is another good spyware remover? And, of course, thanks!

[Capitalism2003]

see the post I linked to. Download Spybot and make sure you UPDATE both programs. If you run scans with the updated Spybot/Ad-Aware combo and still don't kill it, there are a few extra programs posted in that thread that may help you.

[papasmurf]

There could be one or several causes for your problem. hijacked dns i.e. "mysearch" trojan, a mshtml worm, a rouge application (download any freeware/trial apps lately?) an obtrusive entry in your hosts file, etc.

In all seriousness I have seen this happen in the past. Here are the likely reasons...

1. Faulty keyboard...replace it and try again.
2. Corrupted language file (usually on ME, 95/98)do you have more than English installed on your machine? Uninstall any language other than english and reboot.
3. Corrupted "key logger" file. Yes, you may be the victim of a surreptitiously installed "key logger" program. Usually key loggers are modified by "script kiddies" and they do a bad job and usually they are in a foreign language. Visit trend micro's online scan at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp and run their scanner. Also visit news.grc.com and search keyword logger.

Please report your findings/results to us.


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