Font is messed up on safari

hey guys here is another brain twister for you guys. whenever i go on safari on the text on the web page this is like characters on top of each other and random letters misplaced. i was thinking that it was a virus and if it was if u knew and free virus programs or any other virus programs that you recommend. if u guys have any suggestions just let me know. thanks for your time.

Why do you think this is a virus? That seems highly unlikely.
A more likely reason is that you have a problem with your fonts. Try out the steps given here and see if it solves your problem:
http://macosx.com/tech-support/mac/safari-font-problem/14521.html
Good luck
Bob

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"Elle V" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:e89ngu$ga6$[email protected]..
> Hi there, before I go completely nuts can someone give
me a hand with
> figuring
> out how I can get my plain old body text to display at
the same size in
> both
> Explorer and Safari.
>
> I am using a Mac myself, but when entering text at size
1, it is
> displaying
> larger in Explorer (at about the size I want) and very
small in Safari
> (too
> small to be easily readable). I have done some research
and thought
> cascasing
> style sheets might be the way to go but I have also read
that the some
> text
> problems occur when using cascading style sheets.
>
> I haven't bothered with them previously as there hasn't
been that much
> text to
> bother with them.
>
> Has anyone got any tips, or has used CSS to fix this
problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> Elle V
>
>

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