If you are a frequent web browser, the threat of being affected by some malware is always there. It is just a click away. Simply by opening some sites in your browser you will get yourself affected by some malware. So the important question arises is how can we make sure that a particular site is safe to browse or not?

Before answering the question let’s move some more deep into those sites which affect your computer with a single click. Most of such sites will contain any of the following malicious contents to harm your computer. These contents includes viruses, drive by downloads, worms, malicious pop up downloads, suspicious applications, Suspicious Browser Changes, Security Risks, Adware, Trojans, Phishing, attacks, Spyware, Backdoors, Remote Access software, Information stealers, Dialers,  Downloader’s etc. They can easily affect your computer once you open these sites in your browser.

Now let us move on to the answer to the first question. Yes there is a web service available to check whether a particular site is safe to browse or not. This service is offered to you by the leaders in anti-virus Norton, that too as a free web service. The name is Norton Safe Web.

As already mentioned this is a free web service which enables you to check the safety of sites in a simpler way from a trustable source. It gives you the status of any website on the internet. It will also rate the website on the basis of various reviews, and community polls by other people.

Checking the status of any site using Norton Safe Web is really simple, it is as simple as entering the URL into the application. Go to Norton Safe Web and be safe with the web.