Vipre Premium 4.0 coming soon

Yeah too much mischief for a simple tray icon... I don't like mine either but I have no choice

 

I'm sorry but it takes all of 10 sec to make the current Tray icon in MSPaint. You can't tell me it is that hard to change it or redesign it to look better then it currently does. Being cheap is no excuse for being sloppy.

Also Another test round has gone by..... Still no viper, Let me guess your working on it. We will see it next test.

 

lol i dont like to, but unfortunately i have to agree with everything u just said

 

Beta 2 is now out!

Just join the forum here if you want to http://beta.sunbelt-software.com/lo...nbelt-software.com/default.aspx?NoCookies=Yes

TH

 

Sweet. wonder if they fixed that GUI Glitch in the taskbar yet. O wait! sorry

 

I don't get. Why is the icon in the taskbar such a big deal? I've never stopped using a piece of software because I didn't like the way the taskbar icon looked. If that's the biggest problem with the security software, I'll take it every time.

Maybe this is what it's coming to?.................First guy..."That AV(AM,AS,etc.) is a piece of crap"! Second guy...."Yeah that's true, but it has a pretty taskbar icon, I'll spend the $80"

 

Its probably not, but given the small size its not exactly a piece of cake putting together a task bar icon that isnt pixelated or cluttered. Have you ever done a favicon for a website? Ive done a few from their own logos and its not by any means easy to do without messing up. If your so bent out of shape over it go get another AV with a more appealing icon and less protection.

 

Every thing still looks the same in GUI.

TH

 

Guess I could do that. Sense viper is holding the top in test right now.... O wait

Also Icons in the task bar are not has hard as your putting them off to be. And drawing 4 box's in the tray icon and saying it took us hours to do makes them look like a idiot. I'm sorry if they spent even 1 hour on it they could make it look 10x better then it currently does.

But as stated above. Finding another AV with one a more appealing Icon and 2 more protection is not very hard to find.

 

It's not the icon in it self that means anything its the simple fact of pure laziness that happens because of it. take 10 sec to make a icon call it good (Especially something people see day after day) Just makes them look like they are doing a sloppy job.


As for the 2nd quote people have done stupider things then that. And frankly I would not put it past people.

 

its important since thers so many other alternatives that are equally as good if not better, so seeing the half ass, no effort job they did with thier tray icon wont really put them ahead of the competition and gives no incentive with something so simple yet done so horribly wrong.

 

I agree with this. Everything about a program from the GUI to the way it works all shows how the product quality and the effort put into it. If you simply put no effort into something then what are people to expect. It's like Buying a New car but having the paint job scratched to hell and the company saying. Hey but there is a new engine under the hood. You would simply move on to another dealership that gave you what you should of got at the last one.

 

You both bring up good points. And when I look at it that way, I have to agree.

 

The reason we were not planning to change the icon is not out of laziness but because we hadn't seen any requests for a new icon. Yes, it is rather simple to create a new icon but we didn't see a need for it. However, seeing all the recent requests for a new icon here and on our beta forums I've been pushing for this myself. I believe we'll be seeing a new icon in beta 3. I spent some time on this myself and if we end up using the tray icon I worked on then the tray icon will look similar to VIPRE's desktop icon which will change color depending on VIPRE's status.

 

Point ^
I took it as you guys did know and just decided to leave as is regardless of what your users thought. If I misunderstood what you meant then please accept my apology. On the other note it's good to see it will add to the look and value viper as a whole.. Now how about those darn tests. and please no more We are working on it excuses.

 

Hey Nick if you could change this window it would be nice:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=214279&stc=1&d=1261086150

Use RED color and with large RED fonts: Vipre blocked known bad file! The current one does not catch eye as some other products

 

From an ugly "V" to a "snake" (i hate them). I don't know which one is worse. Couldn't you make something like a "flaming V"?

Err... Could you also allow for the user to still have a "green checkmark" on the "scan status" if he chooses to disable scheduled scans? You know, a bit like Win7 action center allows to "ignore" an alert. I don't use scheduled tests and it's a bit ugly to have everything green and 1 red , just because i have disabled scheduled scans. You could make it an advanced option so that newbies won't get confused. Something like "ignore scheduled scans off".

 

good news

 

I know some work is being done on the interface layout but I don't believe any other graphics are planned to be changed in this release. I'll add this as a feature request.

This has already been added as a feature request although I don't believe this change is going to make it into this release.

 

Running the Premium with Firewall version on my Vista 64 machine at the moment. With the exception of configuring the firewall around my Xbox 360/Xbox Live connection, the program is running very well! I kinda like the GUI look the way it is. It does need a password protection setting though.

 

I can't believe how i missed this till now. I noticed that in advanced options, you can set it to "prompt for all unknown" programs. This is great! It's like a simple anti-executable!

Could you just make a modification to allow all existing exes? Cause right now , it asks about everything. It would be a great simple HIPS in an AV! I was looking for an anti-executable for x64 and it was right in Vipre!

Please consider putting an option to not treat as unknown the existing programs.

 

If someone does take the time to manually whitelist all his exes, is there a way to backup it up (the always allowed list), so that he will not have to do it from scratch if he uninstalls and reinstalls? A setting , file or something?

 

Still testing this and I like what I see so far. I am looking for something to run on my 64bit systems that is not overwhelming and this just may be it. It is not overly bloated with features and it is running light. The firewall is different then that of the Keiro/Sunbelt firewall (which is a good thing, IMHO) and it is configurable. It appears that a lot of the complaints here are about the icon/GUI and lack of testing. These are things that can easily be worked on and taken care of.

I for one used to use Counterspy back in the "day" and slowly got away from it for various reasons. I have since taken another look and think that Sunbelt is coming along well and can compete in the "home user" field with a so called "suite". Still, I am surprised not to see more Wilders users testing this? I know that we all like to see those comparative tests but I also know that we have some folks here that like to compare it to their own real world testing. Those are some tests that I would like to see!

One major positive is that if you need it, the support is a lot better then most since you can actually make a toll free call to a real person, for free! Just my thoughts on a product that I think has potential, especially with more user input!

 

1) Is anyone by any chance using Vipre 4 beta with Threatfire on x64 machine? Right now i want to run Threatfire, but there's either a conflict with v3 causing Vipre's icon to lag on boot (tried unchecking scan files on copy) or this : http://www.pctools.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222627&postcount=16 . If you are, do you observe any lag on boot of the Vipre icon?

Either way, now i am with Avast, until a new TF version or Vipre version comes out and hopefully solves it.


2) Does Vipre 4 run heavier or lighter compared to v3? I noticed that while the system does feel light, especially with operations like p2p and browsing, CPU Time is going pretty high. In one occasion (that i don't remember what it was), it happened tohave the task manager open and Vipre spiked momentarily to 24% of the quad core CPU. Although i don't perceive slow down. Things get better by unchecking "scan while copying and on open). I think it would be perfect for Vipre to add some technology to skip a file from scan when it has not changed, like KAV does for example.

3)Aside the firewall, is there something new in the antivirus in v4?

I didn't do any long testing in Vipre (v3) to have an opinion yet. I have the suspicion, yet to be confirmed, that the response time to new malware could be better. Probably this is related to the not so often signature updates. I say this because a few days ago, i tried 3 "fresh" malware links at random (from the bottom of the 1st page of malwaredomain list and from the 2nd page). Now i didn't execute them, so MX-V didn't kick in. On demand, Vipre didn't detect them. MBAM nailed them all 3.

When i will install Vipre again and have time , i may do more.

Vipre has much potential no doubt. It is also my impression that it also has room for improvement, specially on the signature side. It's still young, it has time to grow.

 

Hi Nick,

What's up with the Beta forum can't get into it, getting can't find Web Page 404!

TH