Norton Gaming Edition Antivirus

[T0tal L0$$]

Has anyone tried this recently launched edition of Norton Antivirus? It sounds something different and therefore I am eager to try it.

As it is said on Norton's website,

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.

Can anybody tell me what is so special in this edition?

[Milton.J]

The gamer-targeted Norton comes equipped with a special Gamer Mode that will keep your computer protected and promises never interrupt you during game play to ask you annoying questions. Instead, it will wait till the system is idle to perform any required maintenance, which you can also schedule yourself.

[Snake08]

Norton gaming edition have this option only,

[Milton.J]

These are some of the key points of Norton gaming edition,
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

[Spyrus]

Something strange about this. Either the current code is completely inefficient and needed a rewrite…or…this gaming edition will be a cut down version, thus not providing great protection.

BitDefender has had this mode for years, and in my experience is much more effective protection than Norton.

[Shen]

I installed the Trial Ware of Norton Gaming Edition and must say that I was so impressed with how well it ran that I purchased it. It ran way better that AVG which I had before. I was going to buy NOD32 and have used it before but the new Norton seams to be a little easier to figure out and use with awesome performance.