Norton SafeWeb: Is This Website Safe?
SafeWeb is a new service from Symantec where you can check any website for viruses, spyware and all other craplets and see whether it can harm your computer. Quite similar to McAfee’s Site Advisor tool.
Simply enter the name of the website and SaveWeb will get a short site report. The report shows what SafeWeb check tool discovered about the website along with community ratings and reviews. If you want to warn others about any particular website you can leave your own review as well.
Features:
- Quickly lookup suspicious looking websites for viruses.
- Also see community ratings and reviews.
- Write and submit your own review (registered users only).
- See community page for latest reviews, latest threats, most reviewed etc.
- What’s missing: Browser toolbar.
Check out SafaWeb @ http://safeweb.norton.com
A couple of points –
The beta version of the toolbar is available as an add-on to the Norton Internet Security 2009 beta at the beta download page.
And you don’t have to register to write a review of a website, you can write reviews anonymously. It’s free and easy to sign up though, and then you can keep track of your reviews!
Thanks for an update.
Based on the tests I ran, I wouldn’t trust Norton SafeWeb just yet. I had it check a couple well-known shit site, such as: s-y-s-n-e-t-s-e-c-u-r-i-t-y [dot] c-o-m (and dot net) …and it found no problems.
SiteAdvisor, on the other hand, scanned the sites & threw up warnings, because it found links pointing to malware & other well-known shit sites.
Norton SafeWeb is a database driven service and gives false positives and false negatives. It’s a blacklist/blackmail service.
I call bull. don’t listen to these guys and their reviews on sites that review sites. Norton’s Safeweb is as good as it gets. I checked keylogger123 dot com on both sites and Norton’s checked out correctly having spyware on that site. That other site, Siteadvisor did not catch on to that.
BE WARNED.