some of my fonts(letter) becoming signs&symbols ! WHY?

[bedmic]

A friend installed , yesterday ,on my computer (window xp home sp2) Lavasoft
Ad-Aware 6 & PestPatrol , so that I will be able " to get rid " off all the
SpyWare & Ad-Aware "programms" that was installed in my computer ; not long
after , as he was "deleting" some of these Spyware & Ad-Aware my FONTS
(letter)started tO "VANISH / TURN to (become) " SIGNS & GEOMETRICAL SYMBOLS (
at first I thought that it was "chinese" ) . Everything on myDesktop & in the
START menu ,control panel , EVERWHERE in WINDOW XP ALL THE TITLED SENTENCES
/ TITLES GOT AFFECTED ... I REBOOTED , BUT IT WAS STILL ALL SIGNS & GEO.
FIGURES ....WHY .??? WAS SOMETHINGS " IMPORTANT" DELETED ..?? AND IF SO I
COULD I GET BACK MY "FONTS / LETTERS" BACK ..???? THANK YOU .

 

[Jeff Waskiewicz]

This really isn't the right forum for your question I think I have an idea as
to what your problem might be...

A font on yoor machine has probably either been removed or corrupted. If
all the desktop icons are showing their text as symbols try this to narrow
down the issue.

1) Open the Control Panel>Display applet
2) Go to the Appearance Tab
3) In the Item dropdown choose Icon
4) In the Font dropdown change the Font to something other than what it
currently is. (Times New Roman or Arial). Be sure to note the current font.

5) Apply ( you may need to reboot)

If all the desktop icons now look OK then you have more than likely
determined the root cause to be a bad font. To repair the font...

1) Open the Windows>Fonts folder
2) Find the Font in question and rename it to e.g. Tahoma.bad
3) Place your Office CD in the CD ROM and search it for e.g. Tahoma.ttf
4) Copy Tahoma.ttf to the Fonts folder

If the problem seem to occur with all or multiple fonts try updating the
video driver.

Jeff Waskiewicz