Any way to defeat Norton Internet Security?

NIS is blocking graphical ads and Title Links on text ads

[cmendla]

I noticed that Symantec's Norton Internet Security was blocking the display of Adsense graphical ads and the title links for the text ad on my sites. In the case of graphics people can't click on an ad they can't see and in the case of text ads, there is no big text link to click on although the lower link is available.

If you want to see it in action, go to one of your sites with adsense while you are on a machine with NIS and ad blocking installed. After you view your page, open NIS and look at the content blocking logs. You will see what has been blocked.

Another way of seeing it is to view your page with NIS enabled, then right click on the NIS icon and disable it. Hit refresh and you will see what NIS has killed.

Since NIS is being preInstalled on almost all new systems this is probably having a serious negative effect.

Is there anything that can be done on a site to get the ads to slip through NIS?

Is there any chance that the folks at Google will take some type of legal action against symantec? I'm not sure they would have any grounds but in the good ole usa anyone can sue anyone.

Imho, if google doesn't find a way around this, it will eventually cause adsense to wither away.

It seems than the folks at Symantec are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I would think that NIS blocking is causing a significant loss of income for anyone running adsense.

thanks

chris

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