Virusfeed from Norman on your own web site

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Norman offers different techniques to those who want their own web site to include Norman's virus warnings.

The solutions - overview

There are different versions of the virus warnings available for your implementation:

A javascript solution to be included that shows the warnings identical to the warnings available on Norman's own web site
A javascript, and a css file that enable adapting the looks of the warnings to you own web site's use of color, fonts etc.
RSS, XML and HTML solutions
Virus warnings of the old type (offered to third-party web sites before January 2006).

When a user clicks on any links to a virus description, a separate browser window is opened, with the description from Norman’s web site.

All these solutions are described in more detail below.

Permission to use the Virus Warnings

To be able to use the Virus Warnings on your own web page, you need to follow the instructions for the different solutions as outlined below.

In addition, you need to obtain permission from Norman to use the Virus Warnings prior to implementing the warnings as a live system on your web site.

To get such permission you need to send an email to web@norman.no with link to your web site, and a short description on how the Virus Warnings are intended to be used, requesting to be allowed to use the Virus Warnings. Norman may decline such a request without giving any particular reason. Norman may also at any point in time revoke the permission to use the Virus Warnings on a web site.

You are not allowed to remove the Norman copyright notices in any of the files used. Users of Norman's Virus Warnings must also display one of two different Norman logos directly above the virus warnings. This is included in the code for the versions of the warnings that is set up for you by Norman. Those who use the systems described in example three below must also include such logos.

Norman may at any time - without prior notice - decide to change the layout and format of the files. However, we will do our utmost to give notice to users prior to implementing any changes.

Implementing the Norman Virus Warnings on your own site

Example 1: A javascript solution to be included that shows the warnings identical to the warnings available on Norman's own web site

This is the fastest and easiest solution for you to set up.

All you need is to insert the following html where you want the virus warnings to appear (copy and paste the code from below):

<div align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="130">
<script language="javascript">

// var nrmTarget = ’target=blank’;

//Set to 0 for green logo and 1 for black logo
var logotype = 1;

if(logotype == 0) {
var logo='http://www.norman.com/grf/nrm_vir_warn1.gif'; } else {
var logo='http://www.norman.com/grf/nrm_vir_warn2.gif'; }
document.write('<tr><td align=center><img src="' + logo + '"></td></tr></table>');
</script>

<script src="http://newton.norman.com/virus_rss.php" type=text/javascript></script>
</div>
<noscript>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ff0000">
<b>
The list of virus warnings requires javascript.
</b>
</font>
</noscript>

An example of how this virus warnings will look like can be seen here (opens in a separate browser window).

Example 2: A javascript, and a css file that enable adapting the looks of the warnings to you own web site's use of color, fonts etc.

This solution consists of two parts:

Download the following file to your own web site: http://newton.norman.com/virus_rss.css (right click the file to download).
This file has to be edited by you in order for you to show the virus warnings in a way that confirms to your own web page's looks. The virus_rss.css is heavily commented, so it should be obvious where you should change.

Insert the following in the <head> tag of the page where you want to show the virus warnings.

The text in red above will have to be substituted with the name/directory or your own web page.

In addition you need - similar to example 1 above- to insert the following html where you want the virus warnings to appear (copy and paste the code from below):

// var nrmTarget = ’target=blank’;

//Set to 0 for green logo and 1 for black logo
var logotype = 1;

<script src="http://newton.norman.com/virus_rss_styled.php" type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>
<noscript>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ff0000">
<b>
The list of virus warnings requires javascript.
</b>
</font>
</noscript>

An example of how this virus warnings will look like can be seen here (opens in a separate browser window). Since this uses a virus_rss.css file that has not been edited, the warnings will look exactly the same in this example as in example 1.

Example 3: RSS, XML and HTML solutions

For those who want to have full control on how to display the warnings you have other options as well the following files are available for you to use if you want to include in your own programming of web pages. E.g. the html file may be used to display the warnings as an IFRAME.

The use of these files are not supported by Norman, other than by updating the files automatically whenever the virus warnings are changed.

Note that you must include one of the two available Norman virus warnings logo if you choose to implement a system based on these files too. These logos are available here:

Example 4: Virus warnings of the old type (offered to third-party web sites before January 2006)

Prior to January 2006 third-party web sites files had another solution for displaying the virus warnings.

This solution will still be maintained and available for compatibility reasons.

However, new implementation of this system is not supported.