Norton Safe Search Enhanced

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

What is Norton Safe Search Enhanced?

"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

View on Chrome Web Store

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

# 1704 ▼ 19

Other rankings

#10534 in Tools ▼ 146

#7 in safe keyword 57 ▼ 1

#35 in permission keyword 11 ▲ 7

#41 in default search keyword 19 ▲ 12

#92 in web analytics keyword 47 ▲ 1

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Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Norton Safe Web (v3.23.0.26)

3.60

(1,559) 9,717,742+

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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

Provides some level of protection against suspicious websites.
Norton is generally trusted due to its other security products.

Cons

Forced changes to the home page and search engine that users cannot revert.
Too many ads and sponsored links that make search results cumbersome.
Issues with functionality, such as opening links in new tabs.
False positives marking safe websites as malware.

Most mentioned

Inability to change the search engine or home page.
Claims of excessive ads or sponsored results.
Forced changes to new tab behavior.

Recent reviews

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

Ash, 2024-10-30

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