Ok, after 2 years of playing Neopets, I have finally figured out, how to play Neopets with having Norton Internet Security enabled. This is how you fix it.

Norton 2002 Instructions:

Assuming you already added www.neopets.com to your trusted URL´s. If not, do that now.

Double click on NIS. In the menu at the top, click on “Options” and click on “Personal Firewall”. Click on the “more option” button way at the bottom. On the left, activate “www.neopets.com”. You´ll see, that “referer” (second button from the top) is blocked. Activate it, save your new settings, and enjoy playing Neopets from now on, knowing that you are safe.

Norton 2003 Instructions:

Doubleclick on the NIS symbol in the task try, go to options, and then Norton Internet Security.

Then you go to “web content”. I have the german version, so I don´t know the exact wording, it should be the 4th thing on top from the left.

Add www.neopets.com to the allowed sites. One the left, scroll down to www.neopets.com and activate it, on the right, are again these options that you have to change. Change the very first setting at the top where it sais something like “information about your browser”. and click on allow. Do the same to the second option “information about visited sites” – allow.

Norton 2004 Instructions:

Bring up NIS 2004 and click on Status & Settings. Click on Ad Blocking. Click on Advanced. There is a list of web adresses on the left side of the screen. You want to add NeoPets to that. Click Add Site and key in www.neopets.com. Click OK. Now scroll the list down to the new neopets address and click on it. Then click the User Settings tab on the right. Change the settings to permit cookies and pop-up ads.

That should do it, but if you still have trouble, try changing the Global Settings tab to allow information about visited sites.

Finally, if you still have trouble, be sure that your browser is configured to allow cookies and pop-up ads.

(thank you “Dad” for submitting how to do it with NIS 2004!)

That should work.
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