Lost a font

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Bonnie

My virus program identified one of my font files as having
a virus and quarantined it. I left it that way for
several months as I thought a quarantined file was not
able to be accessed by the computer. Last week I deleted
the file (thinking I must not be using it) and discovered
that that font is the one my home page (Yahoo)uses to
display most everything. It's been replaced by a tiny
almost unreadable font. How do I get my font back?
 
Bonnie said:
My virus program identified one of my font files as having
a virus and quarantined it. I left it that way for
several months as I thought a quarantined file was not
able to be accessed by the computer. Last week I deleted
the file (thinking I must not be using it) and discovered
that that font is the one my home page (Yahoo)uses to
display most everything. It's been replaced by a tiny
almost unreadable font. How do I get my font back?
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You'll need to find the font and reinstall it. Where did you get it in
the first place?

By the way, I'm fairly sure that fonts can't be infected by viruses, nor
can they be "quarantined" and still be used. Right now I'd be skeptical
about the effectiveness of your anti-virus program.
 
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You'll need to find the font and reinstall it. Where did you get it in
the first place?

By the way, I'm fairly sure that fonts can't be infected by viruses, nor
can they be "quarantined" and still be used. Right now I'd be skeptical
about the effectiveness of your anti-virus program.

--
Gary L. Smith (e-mail address removed)
Columbus, Ohio
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Thanks, Gary. I thought that was very strange also but I
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use Norton Antivirus which I thought was pretty good. The
file was definitely in my "quarantine" list. I don't know
the name of the deleted font so I guess I'll install
several that aren't on my current list and hope I hit it.
(unless someone knows which font Yahoo primarily uses on
its homepage to display the list of news titles).
Thanks again, Bonnie
 
use Norton Antivirus which I thought was pretty good. The
file was definitely in my "quarantine" list. I don't know
the name of the deleted font so I guess I'll install
several that aren't on my current list and hope I hit it.
(unless someone knows which font Yahoo primarily uses on
its homepage to display the list of news titles).
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The font on Yahoo's home page looks like Arial to me, although there may
be some other fonts used as well. These are the Arial fonts on my system.
If any are missing from your system, you should be able to replace them
from your install CD.

Arial ARIAL.TTF 267K 05/08/2001 07:00
Arial Black ARIBLK.TTF 115K 05/08/2001 07:00
Arial Bold ARIALBD.TTF 278K 05/08/2001 07:00
Arial Bold Italic ARIALBI.TTF 217K 05/08/2001 07:00
Arial Italic ARIALI.TTF 196K 05/08/2001 07:00
Arial Narrow ARIALN.TTF 132K 05/28/1998 14:38
Arial Narrow Bold ARIALNB.TTF 136K 05/28/1998 14:38
Arial Narrow Bold Italic ARIALNBI.TTF 136K 05/28/1998 14:38
Arial Narrow Italic ARIALNI.TTF 139K 05/28/1998 14:38
 
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