[Javascript] Mangling of Code

[Peter Brunone]

Hear hear!  Norton is a root of all kinds of system evils.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Chris Tifer" <christ at saeweb.com>

>This might be a long-shot, but does she have Norton Anti-Virus running?
>We've had people say it messes up particular snippets of HTML and images
>will NOT show up. I was skeptical of that at first until they took
>screenshots.
>
>This was my boss, so I had to find a way to get it working. In the end, he
>had
>to disable Norton AV.
>
>Chris Tifer
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Craig Hoskin" <craig at infobahn.co.nz>
>
>Hi everyone
>
>Ive been searching everywhere for a possible answer to this and am finally
>at my wits end to find an answer.
>
>Got one customer on a clients WWW Site who basically can't access portions
>of the site because of what appears to be a corruption of the Javascript
>code.
>
>For example. We have an init script which detects browsers and shows
>appropriate StyleSheets.  She sees the site without an StyleSheet applied.
>We have a page which does a redirect after login to a secure area.  We use
>Javascript for this ... and it doesn't work.
>
>When she views the source of a page she sees for example:
>
><!--IPT SRC="/jscript/init.js" language="JavaScript"></SCRI-->
>
>and
>
><!--ipt language="JavaScript">
>Stuff in here
></scri-->
>
>Something is systematically destroying the Javascript code.
>
>Ive sent her browser to an online page for testing Javascript ... and it
>returns no results at all.  So something is stuffing things for her.  She
>has Scripting enabled in her Browser (MSIE).
>
>Any ideas anyone?  Anyone seen anything like this?
>Im pretty much supposing that there is a Firewall in between contributing to
>this.
>
>Cheers
>
>Craig
>PS.  If this is too far off topic ... please excuse me ... but please please
>point me in a direction where I might find some info on this :-)