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I committed a typographical error in visiting a site. I was directed to this site -> which has junk characters that looks like a virus T_T. I scanned all my drives, but no viruses where found. I'm paranoid because the server's firewall might have detected, if there was, a virus...Can someone help me pls...BTW I have no language support installed in my windows xp, it might be a foreign site but I just want to make sure with experts here if the site is safe so that I can prepare myself and do something. Thanks.

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Following 's concern and 's quick inspection, a plain HTML review is a useful first step but not a guarantee of safety. Garbled or "junk" characters on a page commonly result from an encoding mismatch or binary/compressed data being shown as text; that symptom alone does not prove a compromise. Real risks come from drive‑by exploits (browser or plugin vulnerabilities) or from running downloaded files.

Practical verification steps:

  • Submit the page URL to multi‑engine scanners such as VirusTotal or Sucuri SiteCheck to see community and engine flags.
  • Run up‑to‑date full scans with an AV/anti‑malware tool (on‑demand scanners like Malwarebytes help catch PUPs and nontraditional threats).
  • Inspect autostart and running processes with Sysinternals tools (Autoruns and Process Explorer) to find new services, scheduled tasks or DLL hijacks. Autoruns and Process Explorer are safe, authoritative utilities.

Quick checks to perform (no extra software required):

  • Look for unexpected startup items, new browser extensions, changed homepage/search provider, or unfamiliar files in Downloads and %TEMP%.
  • Check active network connections for suspicious remote endpoints:
    netstat -ano | findstr ESTABLISHED

    Correlate PIDs from netstat with running processes.

When to take stronger action: isolate the machine from the network if unusual processes, persistent autostarts, or unknown outbound connections appear. If compromise is suspected, change important account passwords from a different device, recover from a clean backup or perform a clean OS reinstall, and consider professional remediation. If no indicators are found after these checks, the visit was likely harmless; still, prefer using a VM or sandbox for future visits to unknown sites and keep browser/plugins and the OS patched.

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I didnt see anything in their code that would make me think that there is anything bogus about their site so I wouldn't worry about a virus it looks to me like its just a waked site.

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Thank you very much sir. :)

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