see screenshot; disable smilies in text when posting the sys-info from NOD32, or more generally when the forum code might change part of your posting into a smilie
the character 8 followed by ) are automatically translated by the board code into the smilie if you don't have put a checkmark in the box "Disable smilies in text" at the "Additional Options" when posting.
PS: For acooldozen, I just saw that LowWaterMark was so kind to edit your post to disable the smilies https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=2034936&postcount=12