Using NIS 19.2.0.10 on Windows XP, I clicked on a link at an entertainment news website tonight and got a malicious website warning from Norton. At least I believe it was from Norton; I have never had this happen before. So I'm thankful Norton protected me, but was at first curious if this was a legit notice since it contained a misspelling as explained below.
My browser address bar showed the following address, which looked like a local file:
symres:c:\...[path],,,/PAGEBADREDIRECT.html
And here is what the fullscreen notice said. It had a square with a Red X, and it had the Norton checkmark logo:
Malicious Website Blocked
You attempted to access:
"site"
This is a known mailicious (sic) site. It is recommended that you do NOT visit this site. The detailed report explains the security risks on this site.
For your protection, the web site has been blocked. Visit Symantec to learn more about phishing and internet security.
EXIT THIS SITE (yellow box)
Continue to site anyway
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It startled me when this flashed up, so I didn't click on any of the links. I quickly unplugged the internet so I could contemplate all this. I then noticed that in the Norton Toolbar, the normally green Safe Web part had also changed to a Red X, so that made me feel like this was indeed a genuine Norton intercept.
What threw me was in the main screen Norton said "This is a known mailicious site." i.e., Norton had officially misspelled malicious as "mailicious". The development team needs to correct that misspelling so that other people won't suspect that the warning itself is not legitimately from Norton. Thanks!