Safari fonts messed up

My sister's computer has really messed up fonts in Safari. It's sort of looks like the marker felt font. And the preferences are set to normal fonts but this font still appears.
-Thanks

. It's sort of looks like the marker felt font. And the preferences are set to normal fonts but this font still appears.
The preferences do not override the fonts specified by the code of the pages you view. You need to get rid of the marker felt font, which is probably junk and substituting for the real helvetica or times or whatever the page code is requesting.

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