"/ad" in URL and Norton AV?

Can anyone confirm or deny that if you're running Norton AV - specifically the 'AntiSpam - Ad blocking' bit, that links to a sub-dir beginning "/ad/" won't work?

It certainly seems to be the case for me. With it on, they don't show, the whole anchor is missing from the source, turn it off, it reappears.

Bit of a pain really, since I have a client with an extensive existing site that has much of it within a directory called 'ad'.

Jon

 

sounds like its norton. Turn it off while you work?

 

Works fine for me when it's off; can't really tell all the site visitors to do that though

Jon

 

Change the sub direcotry then? Is there some reason why it must start ad?

 

Only that it's not actually my site (I've just been commissioned to build a new main menu), and is horrendously complex with links all over the shop.

Fortunately, the solution was relatively easy. Replacing the 'a' with it's HTML number equivalent (& # 97 seems to defeat the ad blocker. Which makes that a bit worthless really since I imagine any ad builder worth his salt would soon work that out...

Jon

 

Nothing made by Norton is usually any good