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MJIthewriter
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25 Mar 2008, 2:38 am

I was looking at a random proboard forum and I was looking up the 10 recent posts. It looked like a guest had posted something in a strange ascii code. It only lasted briefly then got replaced by a wide open blank space.

I don't know what the heck that means. Do I have to change the passwords on all my accounts including this one? I don't seem able to find how to change my password here.

I'm kind of freaked out because I have not seen such a strange code posted on a forum... Is that some sort of cookie grabber or malicious code?



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25 Mar 2008, 7:54 pm

what was it, smileys and ace symbols?


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28 Mar 2008, 10:44 pm

No smilies. It looked like a lot of random ascii characters such as ÀÀÀ ŸŸŸ and so on. Then once it fully loaded it was nothing but a wide blank space.



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02 Apr 2008, 2:49 am

It could have been a different character set that your browser didn't support.