I assume you're running Windows XP? This issue pops up quite often with Kismet since I believe Windows sanitizes the data a bit more but it's an OS issue.
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Originally Posted by Dragorn author of Kismet
Q: What are the SSIDs full of strange characters, like ^A^B^J^J^K^H?
A: WindowsXP leaks bits of memory into the probe requests. These are legit
packets, and thats whats really in them.
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I've seen it happen before.