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Gibberish in IE
localh77
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I'm just wondering if anyone has seen this before. On my wife's computer, every once in a while (maybe once or twice a day) internet explorer will start showing gibberish for every website. Once I do an ipconfig /release and /renew, it's fine again, but it'll eventually come back.
The only thing of interest to note is that we moved to a new place last week, and at the same time I switched to a wireless router. I don't know if that would have anything to do with it, but it seems like quite a coincedence since we never saw it before. Also, my computer uses the same router, and I haven't had this problem.
I realize that I should probably just install a different browser and try that, but she likes to stick with what she knows (and it's really not that big of a problem), and anyway, it shouldn't be doing this in any browser. I just thought I'd check first to see if anyone had seen this before.
I did find one website that attributed a similar sounding problem to ZoneAlarm, but she's never installed that. Thanks in advance.
The only thing of interest to note is that we moved to a new place last week, and at the same time I switched to a wireless router. I don't know if that would have anything to do with it, but it seems like quite a coincedence since we never saw it before. Also, my computer uses the same router, and I haven't had this problem.
I realize that I should probably just install a different browser and try that, but she likes to stick with what she knows (and it's really not that big of a problem), and anyway, it shouldn't be doing this in any browser. I just thought I'd check first to see if anyone had seen this before.
I did find one website that attributed a similar sounding problem to ZoneAlarm, but she's never installed that. Thanks in advance.
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Perhaps basically what happens if you interpret a binary file in ASCII?
Yeah, I wish I was at home now so I could post a screenshot, but it looks like a bunch of random characters, with no apparent order. Imagine someone spilling a box full of ascii characters.
Interesting. Well, I haven't set up any proxy, and we have the same ISP as before (Comcast), albeit in a different area.
I don't know if this matters, but IE is displaying the information correctly, as far as I can tell. When a website goes bad, IE just spits out a white page with gibberish on it (which is what I would expect, since it won't find the "<html>" and whatever else it needs), and when I view source, that's what the source looks like.