Anything To Worry About ?

[derekpara]

I was typing a Hotmail email today and when I closed a bracket the number inside changed to the face of a grinning red devil. I managed to get rid of it but is there anything to worry about ?

I have Webroot SecureAnywhere Endpoint Protection installed at some cost. The suite also contains the top-end MalwareBytes product.

Cheers.

D

[Old_Geezer]

I'd not know but I wonder if the addition on the bracket inadvertently produced the text sequence for an emoticon.

[derekpara]

Thanks, OG, but the bracket on my keyboard is a 'stand-alone; symbol and the plus sign is above the = sign.

D

[hc4361]

If you typed

(6)

it will show a red devil in some programs

[eanceoil]

Nothing to worry about, I first noticed it while doing crosswords on other sites - if there were (6) letters I got that emoji

[Old_Geezer]

Surely it should be (666) ?

[eanceoil]

just 6 Old_Geezer ;}

[Patsy33]

They happened to me a few times once. A bit unnerving......

[hc4361]

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Keyboard-shortcuts-for-emoticons-dda403dc-ffe9-4cbb-9b9f-aed845ff8b8c

[derekpara]

Well done you lot. It was the number 6 in brackets.

Breathes a sigh of relief and downs a stiff Scotch !

Night night.

D

[fiction-factory]

Yes, a similar thing happens (in Word I think) when I want to type a c in brackets as (c), maybe as part of a list of points- but it often automatically changes to the copyright sign ©

[murraymints]

(6) testing

[murraymints]

nope ! (6)

[waterboatman]

(6)

[waterboatman]

Nope!

[Old_Geezer]

You're not typing into Hotmail and whatever editor it uses.

[eanceoil]

murray mints and waterboatman, it happens on sites like skype, if I'm typing to my son and put 6 in brackets, that happens, i no longer do it. I am delighted to see we sorted the 'problem' for derekpara, I( just hope he doesn't have a devil of a headache today after the scotch last night ;}

[4candles]

My ISP's forum doesn't use the 'devil' emoticon, but if you type '8)' you get the 'cool' one.

[derekpara]

Thanks for your concern, eanceoil. Devil is exorcised and hangover gone.

Cheers.

D

[Gromit]

Most of the code for AB is over 10 years old.
Hopefully when the new responsive site is up and running, some of these long last glitches will be removed.