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"description": "This one really bugged me. I was trying to validate some code I had uploaded to a staging area on a site and it would not validate back on my PC running CSE HTML Validate.",
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"textContent": "This one really bugged me. I was trying to validate some code I had uploaded to a staging area on a site and it would not validate back on my PC running CSE HTML Validate because something somewhere was inserting extra bits of javascript, SymWinOpen, and I could not work out what was happening. I was getting the same added script in Firefox, IE and CSE HTML Validator (and this extra code was stopping my pages from validating) until I opened the same page up in Safari on my Mac and it didn't have the extra code...\n\nI eventually found that it was Norton Anti Virus 'adjusting' the pages for me as they came in on my PC. I probably should be grateful that its doing its job but you can turn it off:\n\nThis is the code:\n\nfollowed by:\n\nHopefully this will prevent hair loss as people try to figure out where this extra code is coming from!\n\nUpdate!\nJust discovered that the link I had to the Symantec page with information no longer resolves.",
"title": "Javascript SymWinOpen function pain"
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