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I noticed that Laura Rich in this article did not mention the use of VPN's to avoid tracking.

My VPN encrypts my traffic and assigns a false IP so it appears differently every time I log on

.It makes it appear that I am signed on from Germany, France, Spain or some other location in Europe.

So much for tracking me.

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Hi kevj,

 

I don't have the document you are referring to so I can not check it out - but I would guess the link that was supposed to be used was the following (although it looks like an older article)

 

http://us.norton.com/yoursecurityresource/detail.jsp?aid=online_ads

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I just had my Monthly Report display, and I got the same result as kevj. When you click on the More link or the link from the story headline it does take you to the Norton products web page.

 

Also strange, I am in Canada and it takes me to the UK Norton site.

 

 

 

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Hi kevj,

 

Thanks for reporting this issue. We are looking into this issue. Are you still facing this issue?

 

Can you please provide the Norton Product page link  to which you have been redirected to when clicked on more or story headline? 

          

 

Sunil G A

Norton Forums Administrator
Symantec Corporation

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Sunil_GA wrote:

Hi kevj,

 

Thanks for reporting this issue. We are looking into this issue. Are you still facing this issue?

 

Can you please provide the Norton Product page link  to which you have been redirected to when clicked on more or story headline? 

          

 

Sunil G A

Norton Forums Administrator
Symantec Corporation

As noted in my post, I am situated in Canada. When I click on Read More under the Norton Cybercrime News on the Monthly report page it takes me to

 

   http://uk.norton.com/yoursecurityresource/?prod=NIS.20.4.0.40&layout=esd&ssdcat=180&lcid=4105&plid=2&plgid=2&product=Norton+Internet+Security&version=20.4.0.40&plang=sym%3aEN&layouttype=ESD&buildname=Retail&heartbeatID=06d3a8f4-a403-11de-b6d2-001e37deb7b0&env=prod&vendorid=&skup=21171866&skum=21234721&skuf=21171505&endpointid={06d3a8f4-a403-11de-b6d2-001e37deb7b0}&partnerid=&lic_type=16&lic_attr=21124114&psn=T3HV6X2QB8QB&osvers=6.1&oslocale=iso%3aCAN&oslang=iso%3aENG&os=windows

 

Note the uk.norton in the address.

 

Then when I click on any article headline or the More link at the end of the start of the article I am taken to   http://uk.norton.com/  Again, note the UK site.

 

I just did this now, so this information is current.

 

 

 

 

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peterweb wrote:
Sunil_GA wrote:

Hi kevj,

 

Thanks for reporting this issue. We are looking into this issue. Are you still facing this issue?

 

Can you please provide the Norton Product page link  to which you have been redirected to when clicked on more or story headline? 

          

 

Sunil G A

Norton Forums Administrator
Symantec Corporation

As noted in my post, I am situated in Canada. When I click on Read More under the Norton Cybercrime News on the Monthly report page it takes me to

 

   http://uk.norton.com/yoursecurityresource/?prod=NIS.20.4.0.40&layout=esd&ssdcat=180&lcid=4105&plid=2&plgid=2&product=Norton+Internet+Security&version=20.4.0.40&plang=sym%3aEN&layouttype=ESD&buildname=Retail&heartbeatID=06d3a8f4-a403-11de-b6d2-001e37deb7b0&env=prod&vendorid=&skup=21171866&skum=21234721&skuf=21171505&endpointid={06d3a8f4-a403-11de-b6d2-001e37deb7b0}&partnerid=&lic_type=16&lic_attr=21124114&psn=T3HV6X2QB8QB&osvers=6.1&oslocale=iso%3aCAN&oslang=iso%3aENG&os=windows

 

Note the uk.norton in the address.

 

Then when I click on any article headline or the More link at the end of the start of the article I am taken to   http://uk.norton.com/  Again, note the UK site.

 

I just did this now, so this information is current.

 

 

 

 

I am in Australia and I get directed to the same UK site.  Maybe because of system language is English (GB)??

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Krusty13 wrote:

 

I am in Australia and I get directed to the same UK site.  Maybe because of system language is English (GB)??

 

My system language is English (US/North America).

 

 

 

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Hi everyone, 

 

Sorry for not getting back sooner.

 

Our team is working on this and Will update this thread once we get more info on this issue.

 

Thank you for your patience.

 

Sunil G A

Norton Forums Administrator
Symantec Corp.

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I live in the UK and I get exactly the same problem referred to here. If I click MORE to any of the featured or recent articles I just get a Norton ad "Save up to 40% on our best selling products". It looks like this problem has been around for some time. Kevj reported it here a month ago and nothing seems to have been done about it. Why have a Cybercime News pop up every month if you cannot read what is in it? Surely someone at Norton should be looking at a fix for this problem so it does not keep recurring.

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paul_cas wrote:

I live in the UK and I get exactly the same problem referred to here. If I click MORE to any of the featured or recent articles I just get a Norton ad "Save up to 40% on our best selling products". It looks like this problem has been around for some time. Kevj reported it here a month ago and nothing seems to have been done about it. Why have a Cybercime News pop up every month if you cannot read what is in it? Surely someone at Norton should be looking at a fix for this problem so it does not keep recurring.

I contacted my Norton contact when this month's Monthly report came up with the same results as last month. I was assured the engineers are working on it.