When I'm typing a post on this forum and I click any of the formatting buttons at the top of the text-entry box (like above where I'm typing this message right now), a little window pops up with the following message:
"You are about to leave the Norton Community to visit a website outside of the Symantec.com and Norton.com domain. Please be aware that Symantec does not specifically monitor, validate, or, provide support for hyperlinks provided by community members other than Symantec employees. Hyperlinks provided by community members other than Symantec employees may host malicious and/or offensive content. Please be cautious and follow these hyperlinks at your discretion. Symantec Corporation does not endorse hyperlinks leading you out of the Norton forums, blogs, and, the Symantec.com and Norton.com domains."
What's up with that? Why does it require a "website outside of the Symantec.com and Norton.com domain" just to make something bold or indented? And exactly which other domain am I sending info to? (I suppose I could configure NIS 2009 to log each and every one of Firefox's internet connections, to satisfy my curiosity as to which site I'm mysteriously visiting when this happens). One would think that all the Norton forum stuff would be hosted (or whatever the correct word is) on the same site, so how come when I click the "bold" icon or the smiley-face icon, it says that I'm going to a non-Norton site? It's only for the formatting icons, not for posting itself.
I'm using Firefox 3.0.5 and XP Pro SP2. As I've always done in this version of Firefox, I do have Firefox set to "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" (not sure that's even relevant here) but it's always been set to that, I haven't changed any Firefox settings, I haven't added any new add-ons or plug-ins or whatever, and I don't remember this happening before.
Is this harmless and normal? Or are my postings somehow being messed with by something else? (yeah I know, that's unlikely, but I wanted to double-check). Is anyone else experiencing this?