data recieved from mscomm different from hyperterminal

I have a problem receiving data in vB6 using de MSComm. First I used Hyperterminal and i got the data correctly but using vb6 i get it codified.
For example, instead of getting 49.15, I'm receiving de characters '9¬±5. For 17.25 I get ±·²5.
Is it a problem with the emulation type, something that hyperterminal does, and I need to configure in VB6? I also tried changing the data type of the variable where I'm saving the input but it doesn't work. I also played with hyperterminal's emulation type and once i got something ilike of what i get in vb.
Any help will be very helpfull. Thanks