Ok, this is getting somewhat annoying. I have Norton’s Internet Security2008 and lately when I click on a post here, IS will block it and say it a suspicious website. I can understand the occassional site, but it’s been happening 1-2 posts daily now. Exactly how do these companies determine what is a suspicious site and what on SD would cause it to think it was?
I got a warning on these two posts just now:
That’s your problem right there.
I used to be a real fan of Norton products, back when Peter Norton did them. But since he left and the big company took over, they have become increasingly bloated & ineffective, tend to interfere with other things, are hard to remove, and use unscrupulous sales tactics (like automatic renewals charged to your credit card).
I no longer use Norton products, and advise others to avoid them.
I’d disable Norton (could be a PITA to do so) and get AVG Free.
Joe
You’ll probably need this to fully get rid of it. Even then, you’ll probably be able to find traces of it.
Let me second (or third) that about Norton’s. I used to be a happy user of Norton back in Dos days, but their Windows product is just awful. Worse than a virus. I bought a new computer recently, and Norton’s came embedded. I tried it for a few days and intrusive isn’t the word. It shut things down to a crawl. Uninstalled it and went back to one of the free ones, which has worked just fine - although a month or so ago I did get Bit Defender, mostly to see if it were any better than a freebie. The jury is still out.
I agree with everyone here, Norton is not worth the money. AVG Free is great for anti virus, and Online Armour is a great free firewall, scoring very high on Matousec’s security tests. I have found that having a separate AV and firewall is best.