Apple password verification showing weird characters I recently had to reload Yosemite on my Macbook Pro Retina (Mid 2014)
and after booting it up this morning and allowing a application to run, my password box looks like this.

Any help would be appreciated.
That looks like font corruption. I'd run the "standard toolkit"


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