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How do you know when you’re visiting a safe Web site? Attractive site design and the appearance of legitimacy can simply disguise a site that aims to steal your identity, co-opt your computer to spam others, or simply take your hard-earned cash.

That’s why Norton Safe Web is one of our most exciting new beta projects. It is a new Web safety solution based on Symantec's automated analysis of Web sites in order to determine their potential impact on you and your computer.

The Norton Safe Web beta makes it easy for you to differentiate safe sites from malicious ones by providing visual site ratings within everyday search results from top search sites like Google, Yahoo! and Live Search. Additionally, due to the nature of security threats on the Web, Norton Safe Web will also warn you before you visit a site that contains malicious content.

Accessible from the Norton Internet Security 2009 Norton Toolbar installed on your PC, once you download the Norton Safe Web beta plug-in, we let you know how safe a particular Web site might be before you view it. If you need to find out more about how a Web site might behave, we provide more detailed information on the Norton Safe Web Report.

The Norton Safe Web Beta is available exclusively to Norton Internet Security 2009 users who want to experience the latest solution against online threats. If you do not have Norton Internet Security 2009, you may purchase a subscription.