Norton DNS
Norton ConnectSafe (name changed Summer of 2012)
A safer way to surf the web
Free for home and personal use
First, let’s define DNS. DNS stands for Domain Name System. Every object that connects to the Internet has an IP address, something that looks like 192.168.25.180. These numbers are hard to remember and can change from time to time so DNS was implemented to simplify this. Instead of having to remember IP addresses, we just need to remember a website address or URL, something like www.google.com. DNS is what does the translation from URL to IP address for your computer making the process transparent to you. Norton DNS takes this an additional step and provides an assessment of the site you are requesting. If the site is deemed malicious or inappropriate then a warning message is displayed. If the site is safe, you are taken to the site right away.