Here's someting I am wondering whether any one has ever encuntered, which doesn;t seem to be known on virus forums yet.
A friend of mine who uses AVG asked me to come and look at his computer as some of his fints were disappearing. His Arial.ttf font was found in the recycling bin. He told me that around the date shown in the recyling bin for the font having been deleted, the machine had appeared to turn its self on and dial out through the modem. Someting is blocking free use of the interent. He's AVG scanned the whole harddrive doing all files but nothing shows. I have run an AVG 7.0 virus check from safe mode dos prompt using the rescue disks. Nothing was found. I had to do it from safe mode dos prompt as booting to dos on an A: drive disk does not recognise any NTFS partitions under Xp Home only FAT patitions. I am yet to download some other Spyware removal utilities as well. I have checked in that computer's recycle bin and other TTF fonts were also there, deleted at the exact same time. They mostly appear to be fonts that come with Windwos Xp or are installed by Internet Explorer 6.0 I am convinced that no operator of the computer deleted these fonts. When trying to restore these fonts from the recycle bin, a message came up objecting to Dc362: being reinstalled. However I have checked the font on my own machine and it does not appear to have an internal name of Dc362: Has any one ever heard of anyting specific that would do this please? _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
