Vipre antivirus

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:27 pm

http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/home-home-office/vipre/
Anybody using it or have any pros/cons towards using it?

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:30 pm

Sparkie wrote:http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/home-home-office/vipre/
Anybody using it or have any pros/cons towards using it?

yep, don't use it. Misses more then it detects, leaves fragments and remnants when cleaning which leads to corrupted files, and overall looks like its working but in reality you'd probably be better off not knowing about what it ignores.

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:40 pm

Ok, strike 1 on Vipre.

Are you a fan of BitDefender?

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:51 pm

1)Nod32

2)Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 (I'm using the pro version on my lap top, got some free licenses for beta testing)

3) Kaspersky

Test those. I'm not a fan of bitdefender.

I was a beta tester of the Trend Micro, great experience. No performance drop, no false detections so far, its not bothering me at all unless it detects something. I did disable the green coloring of "good" links in my browser, though, but thats 2 clicks. The firewall seems good and doesn't bother me. It automatically accepts a lot of things (I suspect they're doing fingerprint checks on them). The pro version has some nice features, such as system clean up and a security vault. But nothing really necessary to pay for, you can just use CCleaner and another encryption program (As said i got free licenses for beta testing, otherwise i would have taken the standard edition

)

I just installed Kaspersky on 8 computers at work (heheh, 2 months of summer vacation from university), so far a good experience. Nobody noticed any performance drop, and i have really good experience with Kaspersky's detection in the past and also now. Seems not to be bothering anyone unless its needed.

I've been a Nod32 user for a long time. Good price, great performance and no false positives in the time i was an user for it. Worth testing.

So, those three are what i'd suggest giving a spin

I know a lot of others who also supports my opinions on these three.

Rescator · Post by **Rescator** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:15 pm

I always liked Avast, but the last year or so I've been using ClamWin (windows version of Clam AV) a free open source project, regularly updated too (sometimes multiple times daily with new definitions)

I'm also curious how Microsofts free virus scanner will turn out, if it's not a resource hog I'll probably move to that one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamwin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_ ... Essentials

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:26 pm

I always seem to gravitate back to nod32. I think I'm there permanently now.

Plus newegg has frequent enough supersavers on nod that it never costs me more than $20/year.

That, coupled with a 30 day free trial means 13 months for $20. Quite a bargain in my book.

cheers

usually decent reviews here
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthre ... ight=vipre

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:49 pm

My first ppick is AVAST...
My work second is AVIRA which does an OK job but has popup annoy screens until you register!

PB · Post by PB » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:30 pm

> My work second is AVIRA which does an OK job but has popup annoy
> screens until you register!

Only one screen, and only when you update. The updates are set for every
time you connect to the net, so do what I do: disable that and just do a
manual update every few days. Then you only see the one ad screen
when you choose.

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:44 pm

Thanks for the feedback. I followed the advice of thefool and rsts and installed the Nod32 trial.

utopiomania · Post by **utopiomania** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:15 pm

I have no experiences with Vipre. I use AVG Free today which works very well, but will switch to
Microsoft Security Essentials when it's ready.

talisman · Post by **talisman** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:18 pm

I use NOD32 actively on Windows systems and the file server edition for my Linux server. Automatic updates work like well oiled engine and I've yet had a problem with it. Memory usage is fair, but the new 3.0 interface isn't to my liking. I prefer NOD32 2.7 interface.

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:33 am

PB wrote:> My work second is AVIRA which does an OK job but has popup annoy
> screens until you register!

Only one screen, and only when you update. The updates are set for every
time you connect to the net, so do what I do: disable that and just do a
manual update every few days. Then you only see the one ad screen
when you choose.

AHAAA!!! Thank you for the tip!

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:44 am

Avira is free, good and light on resources. To disable nag screen on update just do this:
http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disabl ... ir_nag.htm

Post by **idle** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:01 am

Avira is ok but it's lazy on access scanning is irritating when it picks up a encrypted packed exe with either UPX or molebox and the like and it spawns multiple warnings requiring you to click ignore a few times before it gives up.

nice tip about removing the nag, it has a habit of popping up in the middle of doing stuff and steals the focus.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:25 am

I gladly paid for Nod32 to get rid of avira.. Like Idle i also had problems like that.

That said, for a free antivirus it usually scores pretty high in the tests.

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