Norton 360

[Patrick55]

   I use Norton 360 which does a great job of controlling pop up ads.  However, I'm noticing more and more "cover up" ads, those that cover all or a portion of a Web page. For instance, when I go to a financial Website, the cover up ad may be an ad for a bank.  Other times, a small cover up ad will appear which will ask me to participate in a feedback survey.

  Is it possible for Norton 360 to eliminate these cover up ads as well?

  Thanks!

[peterweb Super RootKit Eradicator]

Hi Patrick55

Norton does not have pop-up blocking. Your browser does that.

[Patrick55]

Thanks, Peter.  Is there a way to set my browser (IE9) to reduce or eliminate cover up ads as it does with pop up ads?

[HarryP]

May be, the following Microsoft Article can help you here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/843016

Thanks,

HarryP

[SendOfJive Norton Fighter]

Hi Patrick55,

Overlays are part of the web page that you are viewing and are displayed using JavaScript.  Therefore, controlling which sites are permitted to use scripting will eliminate these from all but the specific sites that you allow.  Please see the following for a discussion of the different ways to do this in various browsers:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/05/blocking-javascript-in-the-browser/

[Patrick55]

   Thanks, Jive, that was the answer I was looking for.  Since I use IE9, Mr. Krebs seems to think there isn't much I can do about the overlay ads.

[SendOfJive Norton Fighter · Accepted solution]

Yeah, Internet Explorer is not really good for granular control.  One thing you could do would be to ramp up the security setting for the Internet Zone, or make a customization to disable scripting in that zone.  Then add all of the sites that you regularly visit and need to work properly to the Trusted Sites zone.  For most people, this is not really a practical solution either, but it is all IE allows.