Internet explorer hides links

[Dave Curtis]

Internet Explorer 6.0 seems to hide/filter some links. I
am completely
baffled as to what may be happening.

I have an html file which contains the following lines:

<td valign=top>
<a name=sponsors></a>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="sponsors/ammedical.html">
AM Medical Group
</a>
<p>
</ul>
<p>Click on underlined names for further information
</td>

If I view the site using IE from one of my computers then
I don't see
the link at all. More puzzlingly, when I view the source
in IE I see
this:

<td valign=top>
<a name=sponsors></a>
<ul>
<li>

<p>
</ul>
<p>Click on underlined names for further information
</td>

The relevant lines have just been stripped out. But I
know the file is
still intact on the server because if I view it with IE
from other
computers then it appears fine, and if I use ftp to bring
it back the
lines are still there. Also, the file appears OK if I
view the local
version rather than the one off the server.

I am completely at a loss. I have disabled Content
Advisor. So far as
I can see IE is behaving as if it is deliberately
censoring the link.
Can anything make it do this? Some virus I've never heard
of?

I am slightly reluctant to publicise the site involved as
it has
limited bandwith but if somebody is seriously interested
in looking
into this they could contact me.

Thanks

- Dave Curtis
(e-mail address removed)

 

[H Leboeuf]

Any pop us killer active?

 

[Dave]

That was it!

I am running Norton Internet Security. It has an option for Ad
blocking. I just turned it off and the page appeared fine. So there
must be something about these lines which makes NIS think it is an
unwanted ad:

<a href="sponsors/ammedical.html">
AM Medical Group
</a>

I'm not very happy with this behaviour. It's an innocent link not a
pop-up or anything so I don't see why it should be hidden.

And I have the following link on the linked page:

<a href=../index.html#sponsors>Back to the Ball</a>

This line is also removed. I assume it's done by NIS but it hasn't
reappeared even though I have switched off Ad blocking. I suppose it's
hiding everything which has "sponsors" in the address.

I think I will complain to Norton about this. The software should be
blocking pop-ups which open automatically not links.

- Dave Curtis