Does anyone know what foobarbaz.dfont is?

UPDATE: It eventually occurred to me that I could remove all FONTS other than the standard system-installed fonts, even if I could not remove all the font CACHES. That restored my Mac Pro’s ability to display fonts correctly, even after restoring all of the same fonts that had just been removed. (I used the exact same fonts that I had put in the trash, just to prove to myself that the fonts themselves were not corrupt.)

The sole exception is Keychain Access, that had substituted a boldface italic font before my font removal-and-restoration process. That unwanted font still remains firmly in place. Does anyone know how to change the font in Keychain Access notes?

Hi Greg,

it doesn't sound QuarkXPress related and more like a malware issue.

Run a font cache cleaner first (e.g. Onyx) and then a virus/malware check (e.g. EtreCheck and ClamXAV) please.

What do they report?

Thanks

Matthias

If you have Norton on your machine, that could well be where anything odd would come from. Norton is never required on a Mac; you should remove it.

Just enter Foo bar baz into Wiki for an explanation; I don't think there is anything sinister.

"Foo Bar Baz Spam Ham Eggs Regular Bold Italid Foo Bar Baz Spam Ham Eggs Regular Gold Italic" ("copy 1 of 4")

I have a costly, extensive library of professional fonts built up over decades and have never downloaded fonts from the Web. After first installing El Capitan on a newly installed SSD on my mid-2010 Mac Pro and then uninstalling FontAgent 8, my Intuos 4 tablet, a crucial widget, and Quark XPress 2017 suddenly developed a variety of serious font problems.

During extensive troubleshooting, Font Book informed me that I have duplicate fonts called "Foo Bar Baz Spam Ham Eggs Regular Bold Italid Foo Bar Bas Spam Ham Eggs Regular Gold Italic" ("copy 1 of 4"), but Font Book cannot reveal this ethereal font nor does it seem actually to exist anywhere that I can find with Font Book or FontAgent Pro 6.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what this "Foo Bar Baz..." thing is? Is it possible to upload a screen shot of the Font Book window that identifies this thing?

Thanks Matthias, Here's a screen shot for reference to what FontBook showed me. Onyx and Smasher accomplished nothing. Can anyone provide detailed instructions that will remove all font caches from El Capitan? All the directions I have found so far refer to a lot of files that do not exist.

I do believe that this "Foo Bar Baz Spam Ham Eggs..." font is evidence of malware but, because of our longterm security measures and habits, I am more inclined to believe that the source is somewhat more benign in the form of aeons of Apple code-bloat, or a result of perhaps too emphatically uninstalling FontAgent 8.

On the bright side, I genuinely like and heartily recommend Quark 2017.

Can anyone recommend a replacement for the public version of MacHelp Mate or provide instructions to manually remove font caches from El Capitan?

CapitolYahoo wrote:

Can anyone provide detailed instructions that will remove all font caches from El Capitan?

For me Onyx has always removed ALL font caches.

You could try the manual way: http://osxdaily.com/2015/01/08/clear-font-caches-databases-mac-os-x/

CapitolYahoo wrote:

On the bright side, I genuinely like and heartily recommend Quark 2017.

Thank you, great to hear that!

Matthias

No Norotn, thank you. Been down that road before! ClamX seems to pick up the stray Windows virus that I might inadvertently spread via Mail, but Norton is not installed on any of my computers.

Re foo bar baz..., I had seen various explanations but could find nothing about any dfont by that name. I can understand generally the use of an ipsum lorem but not why a required font would be named with Foo Bar Baz or, especially, a string including that and the word "Spam".

If “Foo Bar Baz Spam Ham Eggs...” is a legitimate font identity, why can’t I anyone explain specifically what font that is, where it is located on the computer, or why it is so named?

UPDATE addendum: I forgot to mention in my update above that the “FooBarBaz...Regular Bold Italic” font seen in the screenshot above, seems relevant to the fact that Keychain Access substituted a bold italic font for the standard regular font.

Where did you obtain that font? It's not included as a standard font: Fonts included with macOS Sierra - Apple Support. I'm not sure what you mean by "activate" either. To install a font, please read Install and view fonts. Once installed, no activation is required.

Helvetica Neue Light is legitimate but should not bear that name. I suggest you read and apply Font Book for Mac: Restore standard fonts.

Uninstall "Norton" in strict accordance with its instructions. Do not use "anti-virus" junk on a Mac.

One or more of the following may be applicable:

Uninstall Norton Internet Security for Mac

Removing Symantec programs for Macintosh by using the RemoveSymantecMacFiles removal utility

RemoveSymantecMacFiles

I still don't know where you obtained that font, and it might not have even been a font. Websites offering "free" fonts are a notorious source of malware. Nevertheless, you should get rid of "Norton". It's junk that even its developer admits is worthless. Nothing can prevent users from willfully installing malware.

Read Effective defenses against malware and other threats.

I was addressing GregMG451, not yourself, as it was he who mentioned it in his opening post.

Ruby Best Practices by cr0t cr0t - issuu

Zork was on BSD (developed using it i think?), and programmers used foo as meaning "a strings who's contents has no effect whatsoever" (though that also was frequently mis-used)

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it could be a "web font". you may have been using Safari and confusing an installed font with a web font. or perhaps you somehow instructed a program to download and install any web font found.

don't do that. web fonts can really mess up your system. then can contain viruses (remote possibility).

moreso fonts are a highly complex system and have "substitutions". if the substitutions are not made perfectly it will crash software

google is an apple competitor. they are well know to do things to (some say) attack their competitors. it should be eassy to find people complaining about google doing things that seem to target linux for failure.