Thanks for your input. That's good to know :)
So it's most likely not straight text. I could still have something to do with the encoding being in the wrong format, maybe it's something completely different but my system detected it as unicode UTF16 and made it into the characters.
Cheers.
Ok, so here's an update. I've been trying to view the text in different programs to try and see if there's anything built into it. I opened the file in BBedit, and re-converted the file to unicode UTF-16, which seems to display the characters correctly. Then another really strange thing...
Thanks, yep I use Google for personal DNS. I'll have to look into the router, I don't have full access to it. Do you know if there's a way of doing a type of whois/port scan to detect the DNS settings from on the network, without logging into the router admin interface?
Thanks, I've run a few different scanners inc MB. Nothing came up. But due to the odd behaviour I still want to work out why it happened. If someone was accessing a VNC program to remote into my computer without my knowledge it wouldn't necessarily come up as a virus.
My firewall seems up to...
Hi folks, this is my first post. I'm hoping someone with more skills than I can help out.
I installed a remote desktop program called AnyDesk on OSX. When testing by connecting to another laptop, I typed the AnyDesk ID number in of my target machine, then I simply went to copy the ID number...