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What are you talking about?

:confused: Huh?

Um could it be your computer?

Everything's fine here.

:confused:

You probably just pressed something by accident on your keyboard, maybe?

Originally posted by Jen1989
What's the deal with the text? The letters when typed move all around and stetch etc. It's very annoying, and very hard to type and read because of this. Was some sort of font inactivated for some reason? Can someone PLEASE fix this? I hope the text can be like what it used to be, normal, where it didn't move all around. Who else is dealing with this problem? I hope no one gets motion sickness because this is pretty bad the way the words move.

have you changed or installed anything on your computer recently?

if you open up Notepad (on the Start>Accessories menu) or Wordpad does the same thing happen? Have you tried it in a different browser?

does it only do this in text boxes, or does it happen if you type in the address bar as well?

have you done a scan for spyware or viruses? how long ago did this start happening - could you try doing a system restore?

Originally posted by Jen1989
I haven't installed anything. The last thing I installed was the no-adware.
I noticed it started yesterday, but today it seems vorse today.
It affects text boxes and all regular e-mail boxes that you type in to send e-mail. It is diong the same thing in the address bar. I did a scan and I don't see what could be causing it. I shut down my computer properly and I let it stay off for a few mintues and then I brought it back up. It's almost like having letters on a waterbed. The words just keep moving. I went to one other site to see what would happen and it's doing the same thing there also. It's doing it in both AOL and IE. I went into Microsoft Word and typed and it's doing the same thing there as well.
When you mentioned system restore did you mean shutting down the computer and then bringing it back up? How can I fix it so that it will stop making the words move around? what version of Windows are you using - if you are using XP you could try to do a System Restore,

go to the Start menu, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and open System Restore. There should be an option to "restore my computer to an earlier time" (I apologize if I'm a little off on some of this, I dont have an XP machine handy so I'm doing this from memory) select that and click Next, then it should give you a "calendar" with bold dates where your restore points are and descriptions on the right. Try click on one from about a week ago, Next and Next again to restart your computer and restore it back to a point before this happened.

I honestly can't say that I know what is happening, but it SOUNDS like it is possibly a virus, which might make the System restore a non-option. Is your Antivirus up-to-date? could you try to run an online virus scan at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp ?

The next thing that I would suggest would be to run HijackThis and post a log to see what is running on the system.

Whatever this problem may be, I would suggest that you take any steps necessary to back-up all of your data and prepare for a possible Windows reinstallation.

your computer is screwed up.

Jenny, it would probably be a good idea to go to one of the computer labs on your campus and see if they can find someone who can look over your computer to see what is wrong. There would have to be people on your campus that know everything there is to know about a computer and can help you out.

Originally posted by Jen1989
It's a Windows XP Professional
I do have anti-virus software. I'm not sure if it's still up-to-date. Is there a way to know if it's not up to date?
I've never seen a computer do this before. So it is very strange to see my computer acting like this. I hope I can fix it. If it turns out to be a virus, I sure hope it's not a really bad one. I can't afford a new computer. I hope it can be fixed without having to re-install Windows, that's beyond my computer know-how abilities. All I know is that having to install Windows is a major pain, so I've heard Is there any address for Hijackthis?

How to tell if your antivirus program is up-to-date depends on what brand it is, but let me ask you this, how long ago did you buy the software, or if it came with your computer, how long ago was that? Typically when you buy AV software, it has a one year subscription, and the AV that comes with new computers is a 90 day subscription.

Having a virus doesn't mean that you need to buy a new computer, but you MAY need to back up all of your files and reinstall Windows, but if you can find a friend or someone that knows what they are doing, as Mike suggested, they can probably fix it.

the Links for HijackThis, and several free antivirus programs are in my signature, but here's HJT: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/HijackThis.exe

once you've downloaded it open the file and run a scan, then create a log, post it here if you'd like or PM it to me.