Text in Windows and Internet Explorer are in an Internation langauge

[jamesdm]

Hi,

When visting websites with greek text the text encoding is in cyrillic
The same happens in Help Center and some with with greek text. M
Windows XP is in greek. I also can't install programs. The installatio
program doesn't even start. It appears that the deafault encoding ha
changed to Cyrillic. I'm preaty sure that this is due to Spyware, has
had to remove quite a lot from my boss' PC. I've tried using th
advanced setting in the regional settings but nothing happens. Th
default setting here is greek. Another example. WinRAR is also i
greek, when you right click on a folder the commands in the popup men
for winrar are in cyrillic characters instead of greek.

Thank you,
Jame

 

[Guest]

Hi,

When visting websites with greek text the text encoding is in cyrillic.
The same happens in Help Center and some with with greek text. My
Windows XP is in greek. I also can't install programs. The installation
program doesn't even start. It appears that the deafault encoding has
changed to Cyrillic. I'm preaty sure that this is due to Spyware, has I
had to remove quite a lot from my boss' PC. I've tried using the
advanced setting in the regional settings but nothing happens. The
default setting here is greek. Another example. WinRAR is also in
greek, when you right click on a folder the commands in the popup menu
for winrar are in cyrillic characters instead of greek.

Thank you,
James

On IE click View >> Encoding >> Change the language here to Greek.
Did you run disk clean up and Defrag in safe mode, then open a run command
and type in:
sfc /scannow click [OK] you will need your XP Greek CD to perform the
operation.
Otherwise it is all Greek to me<G>, send more info about the Malware and did
you scanned for Viruses?.
HTH.
nass

 

[jamesdm]

Hi,

I'll try that and get back to you. I also found out that in the
Internet Options of Internet Explorer 7 the fonts have defaulted to
cyrillic. When I change it (select Greek and press OK and OK) it
defaults back to cyrillic. I downloaded Advanced Registry Tracer 2 to
compare registry changes, but I haven't done so cause I've go a feeling
it wont come up with anything. I might try comparing the registry of the
problematic windows xp with a healthy one, but that will be quite hectic
and time consuming. By the way Firefox is OK. (I keep on telling my boss
to stop downloading porn but he won't listen. Now he's learning the hard
way).

Thank you,
James.