Problem with Norton Internet Security and WrongPlanet.net

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My parents have recently installed Norton Internet Security to our laptop and whenever I attempt to access Wrong Planet, a message appears stating: "Suspicious webpage blocked". Although - obviously - I have the option to enter the site anyway, I would like to know why this message continually appears. Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens and/or how to stop it from happening again.

What are the websites you're trying to access? Are they photo websites, or social networks?

There might be somewhere in the Norton Community where you can ask about this - unless of course that site gets blocked by it too...
http://community.norton.com/

Alternatively, I would hope there's some means of reporting false alarms there - so at least WP can be taken off the "suspicious" list.

Norton is a virus within itself.

McAfee recently had an issue where one of their updates blocked any access to the Internet at all, which created something of a problem with being able to download the corrections for it...

Having handled that particular one on my sister's PC I was horrified to discover just how grossly bloated McAfee has become, to the extent that a more accurate description for it might be "parasite OS".

McAfee recently flagged my site as "malicious" and blocked their users from downloading anything from my site. This only came to light when one of my site users reported the problem to me. I contacted McAfee and they acknowledged they had made a mistake and eventually changed the status to "minimal risk". In the mean time I lost sales due to McAfee's crappy software. I tried to find out more about why they had made the mistake but they completely ignored me.

Apparently there are lots of websites wrongly flagged as malicious by McAfee and in recent independent tests not only do they make lots of false positives but also give a green light to some websites that do host malware!

I think it's disgraceful if the website being blocked isn't given a reason in advance, along with a chance to respond - and McAfee's attitude to those who dare to query a block after it's been enforced is pretty shabby and arrogant.

May I recommend Zone Alarm? I use it, and have ever since my older-than-the-hills computer teacher recommended it in 2005. It hardly ever blocks whole sites, although I am conservative with my internet usage, I have never had a problem. McAfee and Norton are WORTHLESS! Even worse, installing Adobe Reader, I think it is, automatically puts some sort of McAfee ad program on your PC, which then pops up "warnings" advising you to buy the full program. I think it's called McAfee Security Scan. My new laptop came with Norton preinstalled, which then tried to force me to buy the full version. I had to hunt for the uninstaller. Buy a new computer, everybody and their brother is trying to force "security" software on you, which "secures" your computer like TSA "secures" an airport. All flash and bother, no real protection. Take my advice, get Zone Alarm. At least it blocks the annoying "drive by downloads" that the Russians are using to load malware.