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Virus that changes my character sets?


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Has anyone ever come across a virus that will change the character set of the file?

My server has an issue where I try to open certain .pdf / .xls / .xlsx / .doc /.docx and so on I get a popup window that asks me to import the character set.

I have had a colleague mention that he has seen the same issue recently and he realized that it was a virus. What he said was the virus encrypts certain file extensions.

I believe that this is a cause of some kind of corruption, however, I have to ask if there is a possibility that there is a virus that exists that will change the character sets of certain file extensions to render them corrupt.

If there is such a virus, is there a virus removal tool or method to clean it available.

Thanks!

P.S. I have ran a few virus scans all of which did not find anything.

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