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Keeping your computer free from infection can be fairly straight forward. Simple steps such as ensuring you run updated antivirus software and take a few precautionary measures you should be able to have a computer that will resist existing and emerging viruses. This guide highlights some of the best methods to protect your computer.

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A virus is a computer program that finds its way onto a computer without the knowledge or consent of its user and, depending on the type of virus, can do considerable amounts of damage. Within minutes of the virus becoming active it might have tried to spread by sending out unsolicited emails to your friends, changed the settings of your system, corrupted important files so they are no longer retrievable, and maybe even made your computer unusable and reformatted your hard drive.

Since the first credited virus in 1982, malicious programs have become more and more commonplace, with many new ones being discovered every day. Although not all of them will cause damage to your computer, they can take up memory and cause problems with the way your system works, leading to poor performance or system crashes. Coupled with the risk of viruses, spyware has also become a problem when using the internet. Spyware is a program which secretly installs itself on your system and monitors your behaviour, and in some cases steals information from your hard drive and sends it to other people.

Antivirus programs, such as Symantec’s Norton Antivirus 2009, have been developed to combat the risk of viruses and spyware. By searching your computer’s files, scanning the registry and protecting emails, antivirus software will ensure that your computer is protected. It is important to be secure from newly discovered viruses, and as such, many antivirus programs have features to download the latest ‘virus definitions’ to combat emerging threats. Norton Antivirus 2009 has a tool called Live Update which will make sure that it is constantly protecting against all known infections.

Gamers know the importance of being protected at all times when they are playing peer to peer games online, but along with most security packages comes a high level of intrusion, which can disrupt or destroy a gaming experience.

During 2008 Symantec has been working towards a solution for this niggling problem for gamers, and the result is this - the Norton Antivirus 2009 Gaming Edition.

Just like the standard version of Norton AntiVirus, this edition is adept at locating dangers, eliminating spyware, worms, bots and other malicious threats. But, its significant difference is that it works quietly in the background – not interfering with any online experience.

There are no alerts, no notifications and no interruptions. You are given the option as to whether you want to suspend updates, behavioural scanning and intrusion prevention tools. In addition, the software works breathtakingly quickly. Its rapid pulse feature allows it to update every 5 to 15 minutes, its initial installation takes less than a minute and it can reboot itself in less than one second.

A final feature, well worthy of note, is the lightness of the overall package. Impressively, the Norton Virus Scan Gaming Edition uses less than 6MB of memory, and it requires less than 50MB of hard disk space to install. Armed with a host of other benefits, the Norton Antivirus Gaming Edition is a real jump forward in protection for those who don’t want their gaming experiences interrupted.

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