OT (sorry) bizarre browser/site behavior

message from Captain Purple on 16 Jul 2004

We've noticed that people running a combination of either version of XP AND Norton Internet
Security have trouble seeing JPG's on certain websites.

One such page is http://www.mksound.com/index.htm .

In its various changes and updates, it's been nothing but a pix in a table with a couple of lines of
text; right now it has some CSS attached to it, AND a couple of javascript menus, but that doesn't
seem to make a difference. If we put the plain picture in one table on the page the problem still
exists.

There are no cookies; various engineers assure me it isn't the host(ing) and I'm stumped. The only
option seems to be to pay for Symantec support.

I have no trouble on the 8 machines around me, but I called a few people, some of whom have 4 x XP
machines (2 with and 2 without N.I.S.) and the problem seems to be repeatable.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Capt. Purple

Mad Dog replied to Captain Purple on 15 Jul 2004

It's not XP related at all. It's Norton. It has ad-blocking in it and it
doesn't like your directory name "ads-magz." It assumes that's an ad and
blocks it. Try changing the directory to something that absolutely won't
sound like an ad and see if that does the trick.

MD

<img src="images/ads-magz/perfectionists750x240.jpg"

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Captain Purple replied to Mad Dog on 17 Jul 2004

Well we changed the names of both the files and the folder (got rid of the word "ad") and now THAT
works. And so does the link to the PDF on that front page which also had the word "ad" in it ---
and had the word ad on the folder name. HOW ANNOYING!

That still doesn't explain why there are still other JPG's which are blocked by NIS, which have no
such profiled references. Unbelievable.
Capt. Purple.

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Mad Dog replied to Captain Purple on 17 Jul 2004

Which JPEGS? What are their sizes? Ad blockers also block certain "standard"
ad banner sizes. I've heard of 120x120 pixel sizes, 150 pixel, sometimes
250, I think. If any are like that, resize them by about 5 pixels and see if
that helps.

MD

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