Norton Safe Search Enhanced

Search safely online by enabling Norton Safe Search Enhanced as your default search provider for maximum protection on Chrome.

Norton Safe Search Enhanced - Maximum Protection on Chrome

"Norton Safe Search Enhanced" is a Chrome extension which modifies your default search provider, home page, and new tab settings to enhance your protection. It safeguards you from potential online threats such as phishing sites, malware distribution sites, and risky sites encountered during online searches, shopping, or browsing. It provides safety ratings, blocks harmful sites, and indicates safe shopping sites for enhanced protection.

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Extension stats

By: https://searchsafe.norton.com

Users: 200,000+

Rating: 3.35

(93)

Version: 3.20.0.21 (Last updated: 2023-06-16)

Creation date: 2020-06-27

Risk impact: Very high risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Overrides new tab: Yes

Overrides search engine: Yes

Permissions:

tabs
background
webNavigation
storage
scripting
alarms
webRequest
declarativeNetRequest
downloads
notifications

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 6.16M

Email: DL*****@nortonlifelock.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 1,692 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#11169 in Tools ▼ 117

#8 in safe keyword 34 ▲ 2

#39 in permission keyword 36 ▲ 2

#46 in default search keyword 93

#89 in web analytics keyword 45 ▲ 2

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Other platforms

Norton Healthcare (v4.2.3)

4.11

(125) 37,482+

Not available on Firefox

Norton Safe Web (v3.23.0.26)

3.60

(1,557) 9,603,083+

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Extension summary

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Norton Safe Search Enhanced updates your Chrome's default search provider, home page, and new tab page settings for complete protection.

Help protect yourself from phishing sites, malware distribution sites, and other potentially risky sites while you search, shop, or browse online.

Norton Safe Search Enhanced provides you added peace of mind from online threats by:

1.Providing you with safety ratings on search results 2.Blocking malicious sites which may be used for phishing or malware distribution 3. Letting you know which shopping sites are safe

This extension uses permissions that produce the following Chrome messages to perform necessary functions within the extension.

“Read and change all your data on the websites you visit”

User reviews

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Pros

Helps identify secure websites
Provides support options

Cons

Aggressive ads and sponsored links
Forced changes to default search engine and new tabs
Poor quality search results, often marking safe sites as malware
Too many pop-ups
Inability to change back to previous browser settings

Most mentioned

Can't search anything due to sponsored links
Forced to use Norton's search engine
Annoying changes to tab behavior
Too many false positives in site security

User reviews

I can't search anything! DON'T GET THIS

Ash, 2024-10-30

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