My husband was surfing some sites this afternoon and suddenly noticed that 3 "6"s popped up on the IE address bar, one at each end and one in place of the “go” button.
I’ve never seen anything like that before. I did a virus scan which turned up nothing and thought maybe it was just an effect of one of the sites he’d visited.
I cleaned out the history, cookies and cache and closed IE down. When I opened it back up the 6’s were gone.
What the hell??
Anyone ever seen that before?
Have any of the other buttons on your machine been acting funny? Like the Start button, or the minimize/maximize/close buttons?
Nope. Everything’s been acting normally as far as I can tell.
May have just been a fluke, then. Windows uses a font named marlett.ttf for all the buttons/scroll bars/start button/whatever. It’s faster than having a bitmap for each little thing. Sometimes, this font or your ttfcache can get corrupt, and make odd little characters appear instead of your window buttons.
It just reinforces the fact that Microsoft is evil.
Isn’t it obvious? You are apparently the Anti-Christ.
Which just makes me want to use their products even more… 
I’ve seen that happen whenever computers are suffering a sort of memory distress. In those instances, it’s a problem with the font rendering engine and can be solved short-term by rebooting and long-term by adding RAM.
Alright.
You will need an old programmer, and a young programmer…
Well, logically that was my second guess…guess I should alert the media, huh? 
Actually, now that I think of it the fonts in IE and Opera have been doing funny things lately. We are saving up to buy a new computer in a couple of months because I think this one is on its last legs anyway. It’s practically on life support at this point.
Thanks for the help! I was really quite puzzled.
Ok, you’ll need to find a programmer who’s a virgin…, wait that’s redundant…