Norton Antivirus 2009: Gaming Edition

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Grand Master

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The screenshots that you and others are posting show a pretty clean UI... all except the main interface. Why do they need to apply that ugly skin :x

Yeah it's absolutely brain racking why on earth the main window doesn't look more like the others.

You pay your design team money, and they do that :laugh:

I'm in no way dissing the application by the way, I've been standing up for this app against the ignorant running around with the bloated comments as per usual.

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this thing is the opposite of bloated, it's using 5 megs of ram right now. And when i run a game, it uses less. It also NEVER EVER bugs you, which is great. It does all of it's function when the computer has been idling for ten minutes, which means it'll never disrupt productivity, which is another amazing thing. Honestly, this thing is a keeper (just wish the main window wasn't ugly, why can't it look like regular nav 09?). I would definitely recommend this to everyone. And honestly people, i hated norton just as much as you do, and i gave it a shot and i love it.

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Xerxes

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Meh, Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2009 does most of that already :p The "gamer mode" seem counter-productive to me, how is essentially turning off the anti-virus a smart idea? and the main GUI is hideous, what were they thinking??

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ViZioN

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Meh, Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2009 does most of that already :p The "gamer mode" seem counter-productive to me, how is essentially turning off the anti-virus a smart idea? and the main GUI is hideous, what were they thinking??

What is so bad about the GUI? I'm using the blue background and I think it looks pretty cool.

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I guess most people didn't know that they can change the horrible default skin :D

Thats what they get for not trying it out.

I havnt changed the GUI on mine because I've only used a GUI a few times since installing it. No real reason to really look at it after that.

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bob_c_b

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Proving once again that most of the people who are complaining about the product haven't tried it. Just installed the trial and I'm pretty impressed, I'll at least give it a couple days, but my off the cuff is that Norton has truly managed to turn things around...

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Xerxes

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What is so bad about the GUI? I'm using the blue background and I think it looks pretty cool.

Fair enough, that one isn't too bad. Still I'm happy with Trend Micro and it does a good job and haven't had any issues with it in regards to gaming either :)

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ViZioN

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Fair enough, that one isn't too bad. Still I'm happy with Trend Micro and it does a good job and haven't had any issues with it in regards to gaming either :)

:)

I haven't tried Trend Micro but if you're happy with it, that's fine. Norton 2009 is the first AV in a while that hasn't annoyed me for some reason or another :p

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This looks like it could be the least resource intensive AV of them all. I'm using AVG on my parents computer and its slowed it down to a halt. I switched to AVG after hearing bad things regarding NOD32... time to give Norton a try :)

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My 1st AV was Norton back in 1998. I have been using Nod for about 3 years. Never had a problem with it. I installed the trial and must say it is good. Not as good as Nod but I give it a 92% it is much faster than other av's but Nod is still faster. It also looks good in Vista. One thing I do like is it updates super fast.

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