I have written about this before, but do it again.
A growing number of software products like Norton 2004 are secretly installing web site blocking censorship technology to blocking web sites from being displayed fully. So far, they have not blocked info about firearms like some search engines do.
It's one thing to block popups or warn about inappropriate content... but this goes way too far... especially since some of our citizens using Norton on their computer have no idea what's going on (the optional filter is installed "ON" by default). It took me several months to figure this out last year when visitors to Cas City complained about not finding information others could find. When I installed Norton 2004, I experienced the same problem and saw how they have set up their filter. I am not just talking about ads, but images and graphics stored in directories with names banned by Norton.
In simple speak, the software uses its very own blacklist and scans Web pages. If a graphic is too large or the content matches a list of over 200 poison words in the software's blacklist, visitors can't see pages as designed... instead, Norton "whites out" the content -- and does so without explanation.
There are two ways to handle this:
Turning Norton Internet Security (NIS) off GloballyTurning "ad blocking" off from within Norton Internet Security is actually pretty easy.
Double click on the globe, which resides on your icon bar
Select "Ad Blocker" from the NIS main screen
Click "Turn Off" from the right hand menu bar
Turning NIS off for one Specific SiteIf you prefer to leave Ad Blocking turned on, but would like to see the underlying content of a specific site, you can do that as well.
Click the down arrow next to the green globe on your Internet Explorer Task Bar
Uncheck the "Block Ads from this Site" box.