[thelist] Designing for Norton Internet Security

Pete Prodoehl pete.prodoehl at cygnusinteractive.com
Fri Aug 13 12:14:32 CDT 2004


Bird, Graham wrote:
> 
> Norton Internet Security - what does it do?
> 
> We are increasingly being contacted by our visitors who say that online
> forms, javascript, etc don't work. The common theme is that they have Norton
> Internet Security, but of course...it's all our fault.
> 
> I suspect cookie and popup blocking, but who knows.
> 
> I've looked on the Symantec (was Norton) website for detail about what it
> actually does, but this must be a closely guarded secret. The "How it works"
> Flash presentation is nothing of the sort.
> 
> Does anyone know how it works, or even what it really does (apart from
> spread panic)?


I've seen problems that may be similar when an app expects the referer 
to be passed... I'm wondering it if blocks referers as well...?


Pete




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