Gibberish when opening threads

[pohjonen]

In the last week or so, when I try to open individual threads here on the SD with Firefox or chrome, I’m getting gibberish. I’m posting this question through Explorer, which I never use ordinarily. I do run Noscript and Ghostery, but turning them off doesn’t help the problem. Anyone know why this would be? I’d hate to resort to using Explorer just for the Dope! Thanks.

[JKilez]

Threads you open on the SDMB contain nothing but gibberish you say? Nah, too easy…

[Colibri]

Do you mean all threads, or just a few? Because we’ve had a rash of spambots which post garbled nonsense as OPs.

[pohjonen]

At first it was just some - today it’s all threads. But only in Chrome and Firefox.

[John_DiFool]

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[pohjonen]

@John_DiFool

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[Snerky_Snerk]

Can you please describe the gibberish? Is it just jumbled text, or lots of little squares, or ?

Is it possible to copy a sample of it and paste into Explorer?

[Ludovic]

Mackdonna shoehorn butterhorse

[pohjonen]

@Snerky_Snerk

Can you please describe the gibberish? Is it just jumbled text, or lots of little squares, or ?

Is it possible to copy a sample of it and paste into Explorer?

Here’s one from Firefox:

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[pohjonen]

Now it’s working normally again. Praise Jesus.

[Colibri]

I’ll move this to ATMB.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

[samclem]

@pohjonen

Now it’s working normally again. Praise Jesus.

Witnessing belongs in Great Debates. I’ll move this for you…

[TubaDiva]

This is a new one for us --not sure what you had happening.

Glad it’s over, whatever it was.

[Measure_for_Measure]

@John_DiFool

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Cite?

[Skywatcher]

@pohjonen

Here’s one from Firefox:

‹”Tk›Fý\Kþ7äC¤•{q¶5[%~¤+å±ÝקÕc˜]˜¡3ã—ªþ÷Þìâˆ6ñ Ùó:çž{î…É‹Ùçéꏇ9dºÈáá—wî§`Ù®û›7uÝÙj¿ÿ¸úøFÎV’pÅ4œä®;ÿd•i]®»Û휝発«ŸÝ½áp3µué$:±îú½Iq_ä\…<#ß÷k¸ “¡•kiANxZ”×”$øÿݤ š€¡°éŸe¶ ©àšrm¯%µ

:snip:

You might have accidentally changed a language setting to one without a font installed and the software was doing the best it can, then you managed to reverese the process. I’ve done that a few times but don’t recall what it looked like.

[Charlie_Wayne]

And, this is the first time you’ve noticed that?

I finds threads full of gibberish all over the place here on the Internet.

Believe me, that’s nothing new.
(J/K)

[GreasyJack]

@samclem

Witnessing belongs in Great Debates. I’ll move this for you…

What about posting in tongues?