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echo: nthelp
to: Richard B.
from: Ellen K
date: 2003-12-10 18:03:18
subject: Re: Virus?

What comes out as multiple letters in English might be some letter which in
another language has one or more diacritical marks.  Or something!

> From: Richard B. 
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:04:41 -0800, Ellen K.
>  wrote:
>> Do you guys have any multilingual stuff installed anywhere?   I know
>> there are different keyboard layouts for different languages... so it
>> might be still displaying English but using the keyboard layout for some
>> other language.   Which doesn't mean it couldn't be a virus, but that
>> might be how the virus works.
> We don't have any installed by default, unless the users did something
> on their own.  If they just had the character remapping I could
> understand it, but the multiple letters when a key is pressed?
> I'll take a look and see what I can find, gives me something to look
> for.
> Thanks,
> - Richard

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