Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), makers of Norton security software, today announced the availability of Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition, a new offering designed specifically with the gaming community in mind. From protecting assets earned on massive multi-player games to keeping malware at bay, Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition is fast and light on system resources, and never compromises the gaming experience.
Key features of Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition
- New Gamer Mode keeps you protected but won’t bother you while you’re in the middle of a game. Suspends updates, alerts, and other background activities and is automatically enabled when system is in full screen mode, or easily manually enabled;
- Smart scheduling holds resource intensive actions such as system scans for when the computer is idle;
- Industry-leading protection from viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans, keyloggers, bots and infected web sites;
- Customizable security settings allow gamers to reach the performance and protection balance they require; and
- Performance driven release installs in under a minute, uses less than 6MB memory, adds less than 1 second to boot time and averages scans in less than 35 seconds.[1]
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“Gamers are an extremely demanding audience that simply won’t tolerate anything on their system that detracts from gameplay,” said Rowan Trollope, senior vice president, Consumer Products, Symantec. “Norton AntiVirus Gaming Edition keeps gamers protected online and runs perfectly undetected in the background, meaning no interruptions, no pop-ups, and with the same award winning zero-impact performance of our 2009 products.”
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Symantec is interested to acquire MessageLabs for $695 million in cash. The merger will add MessageLabs’ email security services to Symantec’s existing portfolio of security products and services. The deal is subject to mutaual agreement and approval of two companies.
MessageLabs provides email and web filtering as a hosted service, reducing the quantity of spam, viruses and other unwanted messages an organisation receives. It runs its services from 14 datacentres around the globe, and is the market leader in hosted email filtering with 29 per cent of the sector, according to data from IDC. Symantec already provides packaged software and security appliances for content protection, but hasn’t had the same level of success in managed content filtering services as MessageLabs.
The market for messaging security products is set to grow by 15 per cent per year, according to Symantec. Google’s acquisition of MessageLabs competitor Postini last year for $635 million in cash would appear to reinforce this prediction.
MessageLabs was founded in Gloucester in 1999 by brothers Ben and Jos White, and much of the company’s development work is still done in the UK. The company had revenues of $145 million last year and employs 550 people worldwide. About 63 per cent of the company’s revenue comes from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Most of its customers pay for its services using a monthly, automatically renewed subscription. The company provides service level agreement on its services, and claims to be able to block 99.4 per cent of spam and have the lowest false-positive rate in the industry.
Symantec believes that the acquisition will allow it to offer a “hybrid” model of data security, with both end-user software and managed services being used. “The email security market is one of the few security markets where all three delivery methods are avaiable, and increasingly delivered in combination” said MessageLabs chief executive Adrian Chamberlain. Symantec chief executive John Thompson added “By combining MessageLabs with our Symantec Protection Network team, we have one of the strongest portfolios of cloud-based infrastructure services and a great foundation on which to grow.”
On completion of the acquisition, MessageLabs will become Symantec’s new Software as a Service group, with Chamberlain running the group.
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