Chinese characters showing up

Maybe they think you're in China. They can see it from your IP-address. What is your IP-address (only post the first 2 numbers, such as 216.239.*.*)?

Kees

I doubt it, however, who knows? So where do I find my IP number?

****

Kees....
Actually, I am in Virginia Beach, VA, USA. Here is what that site
gave:

Proxy Server Detected!
(proxy test results)

Proxy Server IP address: 64.12.116.12
Proxy Server Details: HTTP/1.1 (Velocity/3.1.1.5 [uScMs f p eN:t cCMp s ]), HTTP/1.1 spider-mtc-tf06.proxy.aol.com[400C70A6] (Prism/1.2.1), HTTP/1.1 cache-mtc-aa08.proxy.aol.com[400C740C] (Traffic-Server/6.1.5 [uScM])

Proxy Reports IP as: 64.12.116.12
(Unable to confirm.)


मानचित्र डेटाबंद करेंनक्शे का डाटा

That's a setting in Tools>Internet Options>Connection tab

Kees

Kees....

Thanks for staying with me...I did the tools-Internet options- connection tab. Looks like it doesn't help, although when I went
to Google, the date WAS in English! Here's what I find on IE toolbar...OK, it won't copy... I have a toolbar (IE??) that
reads from left to right....

A yellow star "Favorites"; a yellow star with a little green arrow at the bottom; The IE symbol inside a page and http--www.Verizon; the next box has the IE symbol and then the Chinese (or hindi or something); and then "Get more add-ons." If I click on the IE/Chinese, I get a drop down box that has a globe (ie?) and a computer with arrows going above and below. The language is strange
and has kind of a line along the top of the characters (and they REALLY are characters!!)

Appreciate you help!

****

1. Disable that toolbar.
2. Disable all addons.
Does it help?

Kees

Kees...
Please excuse my "ignorance", but how do I
1. Disable that toolbar.
2. Disable all addons.

You can just quote me..."Duh".

****

I might be able to tell how to manage add-ons. But it's not the same for IE7, IE8, Firefix, Opera, Chrome, Safari, so we really need to know that little detail that I didn't read yet in your posts.

Kees

Kees....

I am using IE 8.
Also.. Dell Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50 GHz with 6 GB Mem.

When I tried to send this message earlier, it started coming up with
"????" for letters I was typing! So I had to close it out and start
over again. This has happened a few times in the past also.

Quite disconcerting....

****

You can check and uncheck toolbars using View>Toolbars. That's quite universal across Microsoft products.

For add-ons it's somewhat more complicated. But if you first choose Tools>Manage add-ons and then click on the "Learn more about toolbars and extensions" link at the bottom you surely can find the info you need.

Two other remarks:
- I wonder if you really found the proxy settings under the Advanced button (see a few posts above)
- Did you already try Firefox as an alternative browser. Download from www.mozilla.com, install and see how the offending pages look in that browser. It won't harm your IE.

Kees

I have been getting these oriental characters appearing across my browser tabs in Firefox. Sometimes there are only one or two characters, sometimes all the way across the screen. I did a screen capture and printed the results and took it to a Chinese person. He said that they are not really Chinese characters, just 'computer-generated' characters, some Chinese, some perhaps others, some ???.

In Firefox [Win 8.1] I go to the 'View' drop-down menu and change 'Character Encoding' from 'Unicode' to 'Western'. This may be a deterrent, but I note that some web sites [ATT / Yahoo e.g.] can change the setting back to 'Unicode'... which makes it an on-going process.

When I have some secure traffic to accomplish I try to just drop Firefox and then reload it. I have no idea if this aberration means I am hacked by Chinese, N. Korean, Martian, etc. invaders and I am giving up my private security info. Very disconcerting.

I am here because I did a net search to see if others are having this problem.

I also want to mention that - at least in Firefox - the phenomenon occurs when I click on a link on a web page; first small righ-angle arrows appear on both sides of the browser tab, then the foreign characters begin to proliferate. I cannot imagine why MS or McAfee has not discovered this invasion and addressed it.

Miffed!

You may not realize that 5 years is a long time. Your post is effectively buried.

Try a new post.

Hi, I'm having the same problem, Chinese or Hindu, on the tabs. (Win. 8.1), Firefox. Were you able to resolve the issue or find out out if you're being hacked? If so, how did you resolve the issue? Thanks, I hope you were able to fix it!

Frustrated!

This thread is more than 1979 days old. I see above some good ideas but here's the thing. You are allowed to post in old threads but these don't get noticed much and it's hard to reply since you have to scoll down a lot and then the forum bottoms out.

I like the ideas up top. Try them. Advice? Don't add new questions in old posts like this one.
Bob

or Sanskrit.