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Why does a strange oriental font overshadow my searches in URL?

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Recently a set of oriental characters randomly appear and float over my browser whenever I do a search or for instance sharing an Etsy on twitter. I've done a screen grab of it in

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Recently a set of oriental characters randomly appear and float over my browser whenever I do a search or for instance sharing an Etsy on twitter. I've done a screen grab of it in Here is the screen shot

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hello gw83, other affected users have tied this issue to the mcafee site advisor extension - please try to disable or remove that until there is an update by mcafee that can fix the problem.

http://service.mcafee.com/faqdocument.aspx?id=TS100162