Norton Safe Web
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| Developer(s) | Symantec Corporation |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Norton Safe Web Homepage |
Norton Safe Web (NSW), is a service developed by Symantec Corporation, designed to help users discern safe Web sites from unsafe ones. It relies on user reports and an automated web crawler. Norton Safe Web is intergrated with the latest version of Norton Internet Security and Norton 360. It requires Internet Explorer 6/Firefox 2. [1]
How it Works
Norton Safe Web checks sites for malware and phishing fruad using an automated analysis and heuristic algorithms. It also accepts user reviews. Users are ranked by reputation. NSW looks at a site's history to determine how quickly it should be re-analyzed. Websites with a known reputation are not analyzed as frequently compared to websites that are frequently attacked. To ensure accuracy, the top 30,000 web sites are analyzed by human analysts. Symantec plans to offer a dispute resolution process for owners who believe their sites have been erroneously flagged. [2]
Incorporation
With the latest version of Norton Internet Security and Norton 360, Norton Safe Web is intergraded with the softwares. It offers visual green, yellow, or red warnings in the browser. A pop-up summary will summarize the findings, and include a link to the full report.
As an online service, NSW has an indexed list of reports, each with screenshots, a report of findings, user reviews, and recently flagged sites. [3][4]
References
- ^ http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20080812_01
- ^ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2326019,00.asp
- ^ http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2008/07/symantec-debuts-norton-safe-web-public-beta-plug-in-for-nis.ars
- ^ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Symantec-Unveils-Web-Search-Security-Tool/
