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GlobalProtect Agent v6.0.0 showing strange Characters

Juan_Alvarez — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:36:17 GMT

Hi LIVECommunity,

Has someone else seen this behavior on the GP Agent? All of a sudden it started showing strange characters. The agent is installed on a Windows10 with the Spanish language. By the way, the agent works fine (I can connect to the VPN), It's just an issue with the characters. We already tried re-installing it but no luck... We are experiencing this on v6.0.0 and v6.0.3.

Any suggestions would be appreciated it.

Regards.

Re: GlobalProtect Agent v6.0.0 showing strange Characters

Amayaa — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 03:26:28 GMT

Symptom GlobalProtect configured with only
Certificate-Based Authentication Certificate profile is configured with Username Field as Subject (Common Name)
When the portal log in is attempted using a web browser, it prompts to select the client cert. us payserv
Upon selecting correct cert, it prompts, "Valid Client certificate is required"

Re: GlobalProtect Agent v6.0.0 showing strange Characters

TorokAdam — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:30:05 GMT

I have the same problem on an english Windows 10. Can't even read the version right now 🙂 6.1 as far as i remember.

Re: GlobalProtect Agent v6.0.0 showing strange Characters

Salathiwe — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:33:44 GMT

How did you guys resolve this issue

Re: GlobalProtect Agent v6.0.0 showing strange Characters

Juan_Alvarez — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:51:47 GMT

In our case, we had to re-install the whole O.S. on those machines (which doesn't make any sense), but that worked for Us as a workaround...

Re: GlobalProtect Agent v6.0.0 showing strange Characters

TorokAdam — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:53:48 GMT

Since it was only on one PC (actually mine), i didn't try too hard. Reinstalling/downgrading didn't help, neither clearing all Globalprotect files. It might be a font/driver issue.

Re: GlobalProtect Agent v6.0.0 showing strange Characters

ckandoth — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:57:05 GMT

The weird text below should be the copyright.

Can confirm this issue in GP 6.1.0 on Windows 11 Build 22621.1344. Initially the sidebar was messed up like in the OP's screenshot, but after reinstall of the app, the copyright section has the corrupt characters like in screenshot above. What are the chances that this is a malicious MSI installer? I downloaded this from https://vpn.wisc.edu/clients

Re: GlobalProtect Agent v6.0.0 showing strange Characters

KKnowles1 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:05:16 GMT

I am seeing the same behavior on one of my clients as well. We have seen it in 6.1.0 and 6.1.1, reinstalling the client has so far fixed it but doesn't explain it.

Re: GlobalProtect Agent v6.0.0 showing strange Characters

Milan_Vytlacil — Wed, 10 May 2023 11:42:21 GMT

Hi, yes, it's font issue. The GP client has its own font files. There are two of them from Lato font family. I found that the C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\Lato-Regular.ttf was corrupted/incomplete. It had only few kB. I have replaced it with original one (https://www.latofonts.com/lato-free-fonts/) and GP client works fine. 🙂 I have no idea why the font file was incomplete in my case, but this workaround works.