I have been having a few problems with a website that I developed and for the life of me I couldn’t see what the problem was… until now!

The website in question is TheInterPost.net and the problem was that the site wasn’t displaying what ts was coded to display for some internet users.

I have whittled the problem down to Norton Internet Security or at least one of Norton’s Internet Security programs. I can’t be specific because I don’t use it on a day to day basis.

When you have the Norton program installed and you visit an internet page, it inserts a bit of code in the web page before it is displayed to you. The objective of this (i can only propose) is to help secure your internet experience by not allowing any page to show “pop up” items.

Now… when I say items, I’m being quite general because so are Norton. I have found that if some “suspicious” code contains one or more words that Norton’s software thinks might be a reference to a pop-up advert, it interferes with the code and, in my case, it actually stripped out not just the “suspicious” word but also the code around it.

So I say… “Who do Norton think they are?”

Scenario 1: Just because drugs are generally known to be bad, is it anyone’s right to arrest, interrogate and judge you as suspicious or guilty anytime you mention the word “drug”?

Scenario 2: When you talk on the telephone, who has the right to filter the words that you say and replace or remove them?

Please judge this matter yourself.

I have created a work-around and you can now use TheInterPost.net without Norton Internet Security getting in the way. However, with the nature of this issue, I’m sure it affects thousands, if not millions of sites. Webmasters beware!!!

I have found that the problem definitely occurs with Norton Internet Security 2004 and with research I have found that many other people throughout the world have had this problem and in some instances Norton Internet Security 2003 is also mentioned as being problematic.

If you want a good pop-up, spy ware or internet browsing solution then please contact me.