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Old 20th February 2004 | 22:41
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Dagger Dirk
 
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Fonts Folder being deleted each bootup of win2K

WIN2K Fonts folder contents have been deleted with effect each reboot. That includes screen fonts (which causes the screen to totally scramble and become unintelligible hieroglyphic Sanskrit).

I had thought it was happening ONLY on reboot but just checked and the copies I'd placed there (from a font cache on the server) are now gone without having rebooted.

When it happened initially I found a subfolder in Winnt /fonts called "fonts" - and its contents were a true-type font called "myriad". That was deleted however the problem goes on.

I'm suspecting that:

a. it's a TROJAN (but TrendMicro's Housecall has found nix and Panda Antivirus is installed and self-updating).

b. that a faulty self-installing font has changed the fonts directory to winnt/fonts/fonts

c. that a bat or ini file or script is doing the mischief.

Anybody any ideas? Anything I might check in the registry?

DD
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