Strange Fonts Appearing in Applications

Hey everyone, I have a very strange issue…
About 2 weeks ago I installed a font called Cleanvertising.ttf for a website I was designing. The font worked fine and I experienced no problems. 5 or 6 days ago I went to Google.com. I noticed it had a very abnormal and bold style font throughout in all of the text and clickable items. When I left Google via the search results, and any others I opened myself were all the regular Lucida Grande, Times etc. After seeing this I sent all references of the Cleanvertising.ttf font file to the trash and permanently erased them.
In the days later the font started showing up in random email messages, and increasingly on random websites; ones I use frequently or only visit once. Now, unless web developers and those who email me are suddenly switching to this font (which is rather unlikely), it seems as though something is spreading through my system. I find it very annoying and hard to read at small sizes too! I’ve even run iAntivirus through my entire system and come up with nothing. I would like kill this problem before it gets out of hand somehow!
Thanks for the help,
Max

The only way I know that this could happen is that you still have copies of the offending font on your machine. It could be anywhere if you have autoactivation turned on in Fontbook. Or it lives on in font caches that need to be cleaned. It is not uncommon for poorly made fonts to substitute for the real ones in OS X.

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