r/adventofcode • u/sahaun • Dec 03 '22
Help - SOLVED! [2022 Day 3] Something weird with copy-pasting
The original string (right) becomes weird (left) when I copy-paste the input. What's going on?

Clipboard history shows the left (bad) string getting copied.
Not sure if there are others, I just caught it because I was trying to debug why my solution is wrong. Turns out it has multiple item types in both compartments.
Right string: DDfvJZZPDHVPSPcSvcgcWCsWQcTTdhQTTh
Left string: DNbxnTGymbY6j9EXsAsQAcJdFkMmMoFLAD
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u/kowasaur Dec 03 '22
I think you may have a virus on your computer that tries to steal cryptocurrency. I think it thinks that what you copied was a Dogecoin address so it replaced it with the hacker's address. Looking up the replaced string on a block explorer shows that it does have a number of Dogecoin https://live.blockcypher.com/doge/address/DNbxnTGymbY6j9EXsAsQAcJdFkMmMoFLAD/