Administrator_ploc and wrong fonts

[Tripredacus]

Went into CMD and noticed the user account was Administrator_ploc, so I went into the Users and Groups cpl and see these:

Groups are hit and miss...

What is the cause of this?

[NoelC]

Hm, I'm not seeing the _ploc suffixes or font corruption here.

 

I thought maybe it might some kind of nomenclature related to it being a local account on a system tied to a cloud account, so as a test I converted to use a cloud account.

 

 

 

No difference...  Still doesn't show anything like what you're seeing.

 

-Noel

 

 

[NoelC]

Seems very suspicious that the letters are readable, but with wacky visual mappings (e.g., the pi symbol for 'n'?). 

 

That looks to me like the kind of thing malware might do.

 

I'd certainly suggest a scan for a rootkit with MBAM.

 

-Noel

[Tripredacus]

It appears this only happens in Audit Mode. User and Group descriptions and names look normal after running sysprep. Also the Start Menu and taskbar work normally now.

[NoelC]

Glad to hear it wasn't an infection.  Why would Microsoft intentionally change the text like that, so that you could still read it?  That's just weird!

 

-Noel

[Tripredacus]

I did look it up and had found that "Administrator_ploc" was reported as far back as Windows 7 Beta, at least. Not sure about the strange fonts. I also got it into Audit Mode via answer file, I will try the old-reliable (Ctrl+Shift+F3) tomorrow and see if it makes a difference. I'm just concerned about doing dev work on this version of the OS where half the things I need to work do not, and other things make it look corrupted.

[aviv00]

i see it when running cmd while installation windows

but then the _ploc disappear

 

might be relate to setting the users