Norton AntiVirus™ 2009 Gaming Edition is the fastest virus protection you can get. * It stops spyware, worms, bots, and other threats cold—without slowing down your PC. When you’re gaming, your protection should get out of the way. Norton AntiVirus™ 2009 Gaming Edition does exactly that.

Gamer Mode

No alerts + no notifications = no interruptions
Optional settings to temporarily suspend updates, behavioral scanning and intrusion prevention
Enabled automatically when your PC is in full screen mode
Activate manually with a quick click on the Norton system tray icon

Lightning Fast

Rapid Pulse Updates every 5 to 15 minutes
Installs in less than a minute
Adds less than 1 second to boot time

Light as a Feather

Uses less than 6MB memory even without the Gamer Mode performance boost
Needs less than 50MB hard disk space on installation
Runs only 2 processes at a time
Performance graphs display CPU and memory usage and how little Norton is using
Respects your needs
Smart Scheduler holds resource intensive actions for when you are not using your PC
Resource usage table shows you the what, when and how long for background actions taken by Norton AntiVirus
Delivers consistently strong protection - that’s why Norton AntiVirus has won more consecutive Virus Bulletin 100 awards than any other AV software

Source: Symantec

I'll believe it when I see it.

Norton Antivirus uses more resources than most games I play anyway. They shouldn't have to release a special edition to do this, it should be standard.

lol thats pretty funny -- I have heard that Norton AV 2008+ are a lot less resource hungry than the previous pieces of crap that Symantec was releasing -- has anyone tried running the latest versions?

Definatly agree with the above post though -- this should be standard. I wouldn't approve any AntiVirus that makes a noticeable difference to your computers performance

I kinda like the idea,

An easy to hit button that turns everything off so you can do something useful with your computer, and then turn it back on when someone else jumps on and idly clicks links from bebo/myspace/facebook/spam

Lol is this a joke?

I honestly don't use an antivirus anyway, although I'll occasionally scan a file with ClamAV or something if I don't trust it. But I'm very careful with what I have running on my system.

Norton, Internet Security especially, seems to cause more problems than it solves.

Edit: Oh and I agree that this kind of thing should be a standard feature, this is not worthy of extra attention at all.

I used to run no protection till a few keygens got me infected. I use a 10 year trial of ESET Smart Security now. I mainly only like it cause it's a firewall and antivirus in one

HashBox Wrote:this kind of thing should be a standard feature...

... of the operating system, imo.

(PS. I havent ran an antivirus or anti spyware in 2+ years. I use Windows and Internet Explorer 7. Common sense is the best antivirus.)

jc Wrote:Common sense is the best antivirus.

This is true, but how do all you people know wether or not you even have viruses? Is it that the viruses are only a problem for you if there's an antivirus to tell you they exist?

Judah Wrote:I used to run no protection till a few keygens got me infected. I use a 10 year trial of ESET Smart Security now. I mainly only like it cause it's a firewall and antivirus in one

10 year trial? :shock: