Is Norton Site Safety something to be concerned about?

Discussion in 'Security' started by louwho, Jan 29, 2010.

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    New to website management. When you do a search, if you have Norton installed on your computer, you see at the end of the link line a little circle that Norton Site Safety put there. This tells you if the site has been approved by Norton to be safe (not sure exactly what that means yet). Whether it be Norton, or someone else's tool, is this something that I want people to see (is this a benefit to my site), or should I not be concerned about getting this approval?
     
    louwho, Jan 29, 2010 IP
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    Nortons security scan is just a big load of profit gaining rubbish. afaik a lot of people are moving away from norton
     
    FavouritesBlog, Jan 30, 2010 IP
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    Norton has thousands of users (if not millions), so if they blacklist your site (saying that it is not safe), you will probably lose a lot of users. Plus, some companies use Norton as a way to validate a site before allowing their users to visit it... So yes, being "green" by Norton is important.
     
    ddmd, Feb 6, 2010 IP
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    Norton will only blacklist you for 3 days before re-checking.

    Oh and did you forget that before you can become listed you need to pay?

    as i said, its a big profit hole that isn't worth your worry. Norton is going
    out of fashion
     
    FavouritesBlog, Feb 7, 2010 IP