What's a 'Stack Overflow'?

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i want to view my alternate email address

The first week after installing Norton Internet Security 2006, i spent over 20 hours on phone with symantec tech support, doing everything they recommended, what a waste of time. I went back to the 2005 version. Was glad to hear I'm not the only one with these problems! Norton would not admit there was anything wrong with the 2006. Thank you for the reply, Leo!

Hi,
I have the same problem after upgrading Norton Internet Security from 2005 to the 2006 version. Disabling Antivirus Auto-Protect does not help. Disabling all Norton Internet Security solves the problem temporary. I would appreciate an e-mail from You if You find a solution. Regards Jiri.

I was very interested to hear of the possibility (or surety) that the fault lies with Symantec. A web application that I wrote, as part of a team of developers, exhibits the 'stack overflow' error intermittantly when run on Internet Explorer 6. It does not exhibit any error on Firefox 1+ and Opera 8.5+. I could not reproduce the error on my machine (Win XP SP2 up-to-date) after I had refreshed the page a few times.

To avoid a memory leak in IE 6 (and below), the application uses an array to concatenate many strings. This is probably the trigger for the bug, but the weakness should not exist in IE, and is only present on some, not all, installations of IE. I would be interested to hear of options to encourage Symantec to fix the problem quickly.

Thanks in advance for your help!

- Chris B.

Very glad to see these comments. I have just installed NIS 2006 and now my computer hangs trying to go into power save mode. It is also incredibly slow with 720mb of RAM and the parental control list continues to run even after being disabled?? I look forward to Symantec coming up with a fix and for now will try to revert to 2005.
Thanks.

After upgrading Norton 2005 to 2006, we lost all ability to send or receive email. We also lost connection to the internet. If we turned Norton off, we would be able to operate normally. We are now preparing to call Symantec.

I installed Norton Security 2006 and within about a week I began having overflow stack problems when using IE. I'm now using Firefox and don't seem to be having the problem. I'm hoping I can find a solution via Symantec.

like Ellen dated jan 23 2006 After upgrading to 2006, I lost all ability to send or receive email. We also lost connection to the internet. it appeared that when Symantec sends out a virus alert my internet default settings are changed and all traffic is sent to a proxy server (which is not set up and whereabouts unknown info obtained fron XP error log)unable to find the proxy server all attempts to access the internet returns a error 404 message. the only way around this (to a laymam) was to disable Nortons. i then Emailed Symantec (to email address supplied with purchase0 with the problem and asked how to fix it.(note i purchased the complete Norton 2006 package to save guard me against spam mail and and pop up as well as virus protection) the reply i got knocked me to the floor, the reply i got was in part quote "NOTE: Due to a high volume of various non-business related and unsolicited messages, emails sent to symanteccs@digitalriver.com will no longer be reviewed by our Customer Support Team." part quote end. hey isn't that what i had spent $100+ on the upgrade to the full program for,

what is stack overflow error? how to prevent this problem

I am a part of a development team for a fairly big web enabled application, and we have been struggeling to combat this issue for months. Our problem is that when we demo our software to clients using IE, it pops up with the stack overflow error. I have been reading all sorts of forum threads and tried all sorts of solutions including the and wrapping a sacrificial javascript block inside both IE conditional comments and CDATA blocks. I've just run out of ideas!

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