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Installed Norton Firewall today.

It's now blocking ALL adds (banners)

Should I get a different firewall? or is there a way to set it up so I can actually review without disabling it?

Hey there Dareutwo!

I use the same wall...seems to work...have yet to have anything get through it...a very good thing!

Sounds like you have ad blocking turned on. Turn that option off and you should be able to see ads again. I think it's turned on by default if memory serves.

Hope that fixes ya up :)

Yep, adblocking screws with quite a few things. Even non-ad gif animation in some tours.

Also, I've found the Privacy blocker makes it so I can't get through to my paid feeds (Voyeurdorm, ect) in my members area if I have the privacy blocker turned on because it won't send the URL of where I'm coming from to the next page (which the paid feeds need to know to make sure a paying webmaster is sending the traffic from his site).

I just turn both of those features off, and love the other features. I also don't use IE anymore, and LOVE Mozilla Firefox's Ad blocker. Get Firefox .8 at www.mozilla.org

Gotta agree with that. :D

Norton Privacy settings also cause problems with .htaccess anti-hotlink.

Even on the lowest privacy setting you'll just get image placeholders on a site which is hotlink protected coz the referrer info is blocked and the .htaccess won't allow the image to be served.

Just switch off "Privacy control" and "Ad blocking".

*Maybe* someone can tell us what (if any) referrer info Norton does provide, so it could be added to the list of valid referrers???

I got zone alarm pro about a month ago and it kicks ass :)

Not sure what referrer info Norton provides, but you can add 'trusted' zones. So if all your domains are in blocks of ips, you could add those blocks to the trusted zones to work around privacy controls.

I have privacy controls enabled, but as memory serves...I had to tweak Nortons 'rules' to get everything working correctly.

Zone Alarm is a great firewall! I had it a while back, but when I moved to WinXP...ZA didn't play well in that O/S. I would think ZA has corrected those issues by now. What O/S are you using MrMaryLou?

Windows XP And I have had no issues at all :)

I hve ZoneAlarm under Windows XP too. And no problem at all. ZA is very easy to use :)

Someone with it go to this page of mine http://www.cleoslinks.com/info.php and tell us what is says.

This is what it says about me. :D

Your ip is: (probable not a good idea to post the IP that I review from)

Your browser is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1

The URL that you came from is: http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...=&postid=58596

Ok, Privacy Off and Ad Blocking Off.
Not the greatest solution imo, but a a couple of submits brought up warnings.

Norton is a bloated pig. Switch to ZoneAlarm - even the free version of it kicks ass.

Couple of years ago, Zone Alarm was a real resource hog. I assume they've fixed that since today's users seem happy with it. I'm using McAfee this year and it is the first firewall that I have not had to disable from time to time as I had with Norton on occasion.

Norton adblocker users should be redirected to a page that says...


No Ads = No Free Porn

Enter your credit card here for advert free porn surfing now...

A couple of years back, FM posted a basic script that ran when the page finished loading. If the number of images loaded didn't total up to the number of images on the page, they got kicked.

Taking their refer and sending them to a "norton is screwing up your view of the internet" page might help as well.

Alex

Cool...good to know ZA now plays well with XP. Always did like the program, but early versions really clogged XP.

Yup, Norton is chubby...no disputing that. The good news is systems are so robust these days...it don't matter much. Sure don't slow this beast down anyway...hehehe.

I got pretty much the same results you did Cleo, but I've got ad blocking turned off. Reviewing sites would be tough with it on...lol.

LOL.. I was trying to think of ways it could be done... sounds so simple once somehow explains how!