Reliability Monitor - Unknown Characters

[Spd2Last]

Recently, I formatted my HD and made a clean install of Vista Home Premium x64 w/ SP1 slipstreamed into the DVD I made. The install went very smoothly and I had all of the updates installed. Everything is working without problems, yet I noticed something weird in the reliability monitor that I've never seen anywhere before. There appeared to be a long (or infinite) string of unknown characters (when they show up as simply boxes) at the end of some text in the monitor. I posted a screenshot so you can see what I'm talking about since it's hard to explain in text.

Have any of you seen this? And do any of you know how to fix this? The program still functions fine and I haven't experienced any problems anywhere. This only occurs within the reliability monitor tab where your reliability graph appears, everything else in the monitor works and looks fine. It's just bothersome to have all of those extra characters at the end there.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Brink]

Hello Spd2Last,

This is strange. I have not seen this before. Have you tried restarting the computer to see if it was just some weird quark?

You might also run a sfc /scannow command to see if it can find and fix any bad system files that be the cause. It probably would not hurt to run a very thorough antivirus and anti-spyware/malware scan to help be safe incase it is some form of malware.

Hope this helps,
Shawn