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Today, without any prodromal signs whatsoever, when I post a reply* on FB, all my letters appear in reverse order.
This is only happening on FB. It does not happen on POA, google, wikipedia, my Drs website, any porn sites (oops scratch that, no porn visited).

Anyway when I post a reply only (*not when I generate an initial post), the letters appear as such;

!siht ekil kool seilper ym lla gnikam si BF diputS
(Stupid FB is making all my replies look like this!)

It is impossible to put out a reply now because of this.
I have to formulate a reply in a document or email then copy/paste into FB.

WTHeck could be causing this; and most importantly - yes, how to fix?
What languages are like this?

(yes you hate FB; got it.)
 
What browser are you using?
 
Seamonkey. I have auto updates off. It has not had any changes in the memorable past.
It does not behave this way with Chrome on the laptop, nor Safari on the I-devices.
 
Is this on all devices ?
 
Try clearing your cache. Then disabling any extensions.
 
not helping, but can't resist saying: it's karma for all the people that top-post in email, in usenet, etc...
 
There is a site you can go to that flips your text backwards. Type your comment in there, copy/paste it into FB which will then flip it ‘backwards’. Boom, normal text.
 
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So yesterday, I suddenly have a problem with Facebook too, but mine is different...suddenly, all my responses are invisible. If I post, it looks like a blank post, until you highlight it, then you see what I typed.
 
tawood said:
So yesterday, I suddenly have a problem with Facebook too, but mine is different...suddenly, all my responses are invisible. If I post, it looks like a blank post, until you highlight it, then you see what I typed.
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You are lucky.
 
A man went to see his doctor and said, "Doctor, every time I move my arm like this it hurts. What do you recommend?" The doctor said, "Don't move your arm like that."
 
Go under SETTINGS...Languages and Regions and make sure you're still set to English.
 
Rushie said:
Try clearing your cache. Then disabling any extensions.
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+1

Any browser weirdness, clear cache and the relevant cookies for the site.

Of just all cookies but that may be inconvenient because of saved settings and passwords.
 
A few years ago one of my EAA buddies had a monstrous priblem with the broswer. Don’t remember which one. I went over to the house to help...turns out neither he nor his wife understtod how dangerous surfing the web is. One of the visited sites downloaded (without their knowledge) a little extension that overrode every search. Took me over an hour to track down what happened. The answer I gave them (and they weren’t happy) was to take the system to a reputable shop (I gave them names of 3) to have the entire system cleaned up. I did what I could with wiping out the browser and reloading a clean copy but I neither had the tools sitting there at their house, or the interest, to do a clean up job on the whole system.

Moral of the story - you may inadvertetly be in the same situation...got a little extention or something you don’t know about that’s playing havoc with FB.
 
tawood said:
Yeah, guess I shouldn't call it a "problem"...more of a "situation". LOL
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Just looking out for you. FB is a 'hive of scum and villany' ;-)

If you can see it once you highlight it, it suggests that your font settings got screwed up and you are printing 'white on white'.
 
Unicode "Right to Left Override" got into your browser from somewhere. Been used as a way to obfuscate filenames and trick people into opening malicious documents for about ten years.

Probably malware got it into your default CSS settings. Hard to say where it's hiding.

Wouldn't trust that browser or machine any further than I could throw it with my pinky.
 
denverpilot said:
Unicode "Right to Left Override" got into your browser from somewhere. Been used as a way to obfuscate filenames and trick people into opening malicious documents for about ten years.

Probably malware got it into your default CSS settings. Hard to say where it's hiding.

Wouldn't trust that browser or machine any further than I could throw it with my pinky.
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Would an AV program like Norton, McAfee etc detect and clean this?
 
luvflyin said:
Would an AV program like Norton, McAfee etc detect and clean this?
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Maybe.

We aren't allowed to even bother using them where I work. We wipe machines doing stuff like that after maybe taking a forensic image of the drive.

I get questions like this quite a bit from family and such. "How do I fix this on my PC?"

The answer is we don't. If it isn't fixable in an hour or less it's wasting someone's time, unfortunately... Since we either wipe it and use automation to put it back at baseline, or if it's a truly critical desktop/laptop we have drive image backups we can restore.

I don't even mess with it at home anymore. Home machine is also backed up via the 1-2-3 method. If I suspect it's gone haywire wether from standard Windows silliness (or Mac) or something malicious -- it's wiped and restored far enough back it doesn't have the problem anymore.

Important files (at work and home) are saved to the NAS. It's not AS susceptible to naughty things and generally doesn't have low quality OS level code problems either...

Sorry man. Couldn't tell ya. I do recommend most home users treat desktops like companies do now, though. Macrium is free for home use and easy to use...

If you gotta get super serious and back up a pile of Windows machines... Veeam. Stellar software. Free version can't be automated but a few clicks every so often and flawless backups.

Sorry I don't have better info. There's piles of cleaning tools and free ones but we aren't allowed to even trust them.

If you think it's just in the browser try another browser first. If you're comfortable that it's contained to that browser look up how to do a complete removal of it and all settings and reinstall just that browser. Depending on which your using use one not made from the same underlying tech (example all the chrome variants, of which Microsoft new Edge is one...), Jump to Firefox if using a chrome flavor or vice versa, for example.

Good luck. I try to tell my family if their machines get malware or virii I'm coming over with reinstall media and not doing it any other way, but they don't always get it. I tell them of a good PC shop that'll mess with reinstalling to a new drive and scanning the hell out of the old one and recovering files for them that I trust in the area... If they didn't back up and badly need something.

I've got no practice for years now attempting to clean anything without it starting with a drive wipe. Ha.
 
denverpilot said:
The answer is we don't.
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I'm with Nate.


From a trusted machine, download DBAN (www.dban.org) to CD or USB and nuke away. Save any important files to write-once media or something with a physical write-protect switch. Access those files only from a non-persistent virtual machine and encrypt them to make the nasties harder to leak out. Also, air gap the host. Do this until the data contained in the files are regenerated on a trusted machine or you are certain the files are sanitized, then destroy the transfer media.
 
luvflyin said:
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Have done that. Didn't end up on TV though. Lol

Even did it for a business reason once in telecom manufacturing. There's a written spec for how much damage outside plant gear should take from shotguns, handguns, etc. Lol.

It was mostly just an excuse to go shoot chit in a parking lot in Boulder. Hahaha.
 
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