Vipre Premium 4.0 coming soon

I third that.

Very good software and very good company.

My prediction: within 2 years Vipre will be the numero uno in AV land.

more users opinions:

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Yeah the price is very subtle too, I just bought a home site license for 4 comps.
Will be upgrading the lic to version 4 when it's officially out.

Even if Vipre doesn't have the top detection rate it for sure has high enough atm. and it'll only get better so overall it's a great product.

What broke it for me is the ease of which I was able to put it on all my servers, no special download and my servers haven't had a hitch nor did I notice any slowdowns in file performance etc.

Simon

 

My Prediction: 2 Years from now you will still be getting "We will join tests soon and prove our product Just WAIT until the NEXT test" Just like it's been for the last 2 years. But then again if a test shows your product in a BAD light why would you ever want it released. it's better just to say we are working on it then release the test. At least this is the only logical thing I can come up with for the delay.

As it being number 1 something drastic would have to happen to the top performers for this to ever happen. otherwise it will pretty much just stay where it's at.

 

My Prediction is 2 years from now somebody will be giving someone their prediction about something!!

Until then....it would be nice to see these so called test results you are speaking about!

 

Good reply Darth.. HAHAHA nothing better then a few pointless posts off topic.

 

I have posted links to customer reviews just to show VIPRE works for many people in "their world". You can't say all these reviews have been written by Sunbelt people, can you ?

I don't care about all these "tests" and all the tests fetishists who are being turned on by their 99,9 % detection sucker. These tests test what the average user will never encounter in the real world. I'm in the pc repair business. You don't have an idea how many pc's I have brought to life that were protected by a "gold medal winner AV'" and still got infected.

An AV works for YOU or it does not. Obviously, VIPRE works for a lot of people, me being one of them.

My remark VIPRE becoming the nr uno in AV land not only has to do with the quality of this program but also with the company; everything breaths professionalism: ranging from the program itself to their website, customer service etc. etc.

And no, I'm not on the payroll of this company (but I'm available ).

 

It's not really that subjective. Unless you have to deal with a certain of subset of risks, like P2P, adware, cookies etc.

For me, av-comparatives is the gold standard. Imperfect, but objective.

What does 'VIPRE works' mean ?

It works without corrupting the system, it uses few resources, I don't get infected but I probably wouldn't get infected without an AV anyway ?

They are dodging av-comparatives' tests, that by itself doesn't look good.

Too bad, I'd like to know how they'd perform.

 

well only criticism i have for Vipre is they have been saying "theyre working on it" and "will join soon" for a LONG time now, and STILL nothing is being done. it just makes me wonder WHY nothing is being done after saying they will...

 

Not defending Sunbelt but I can imagine that they want to get it right once they get more objective testing as there are so many that make their purchase decisions based on the results of those tests.
This would make a whole lot of sense from a business standpoint and as the continue to up their protection rate they'll join the herd.
Until then I believe they provide more then enough protection for the average user but that's not what counts for every one.

Simon

 

I think that a product has to have at least one of two things to get off the ground. Something tangible to go on such as tests, or a very well developed reputation as a top application in it's field within the security community. Right now Vipre has neither. I have read mostly positive comments about it from licensed users here at Wilders, but how often do you see other members here posting in threads advising others to go with Vipre? They just haven't caught on yet. Maybe they will who knows.

 

I got via auto-update version 2848. Is there a changelog somewhere?

At Sunbelt site, it shows the previous version.

BTW, after first reboot, system froze, i had to reset using the reset switch and then Vipre loaded normally.

 

Fuzzfas,

This update basically made some changes to prevent VIPRE from ever removing protected Windows files so if you do get a false positive with a Windows file it would report only and not remove that file as that could prevent Windows from starting back up correctly.

The other big change in this update has to do with detections for Conficker. Here is a quote from our Product Manager explaining this:

This should be the last update we push out before VIPRE 4.0 which is planned to be released in about 2 weeks.

 

What a great idea. You would think everyone would do this, but that is not the case.

 

Frankly with no proof about there protection. You could turn around and say CalmAV is enough protection for the average user. It has about the same validity as that last comment

 

Thanks Nick!

Running fine.

 

VIPRE 4.0 Consumer Beta 3 Release Announcement

We are very pleased to announce the Beta 3 release of VIPRE and CounterSpy 4.0 Consumer. There are three products available for testing:

• VIPRE Premium with Firewall
• VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware
• CounterSpy

The build number for all products is 4.0.3217. Beta Keys are supplied!

You have to join to get it http://beta.sunbelt-software.com/lo...http://beta.sunbelt-software.com/default.aspx

TH

 

running the beta with firewall now and there is a ton of system drag. taking almost 15 seconds or so to open chrome??

startup is much slower as well as opening apps. ill try it out for a bit longer though.

 

I'm just using VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware which is now just called VIPRE Antivirus in this Build!

But they still have that Ugly Tray Icon and it's an EYE SORE Nick!!!

TH

 

yeah, this is sowing huge impact for me. granted this test system is not the fastest in the world its a core 2 2.8 with 4gb ram. and i can feel the slowdown for sure with the firewall version. once chrome and ie are open its not to bad but it also slows down browsing the drives and starting up programs.

detection wise so far with my samples has been pretty good. i am not crazy about the gui and i agree about the tray icon

 

disappointing...

 

I Installed the premium version on one machine so far. Install went smoother then the previous beta. Yes, the icon needs to be changed and password protection still needs to be added! I noticed that "Block 3rd party advertisements" is "checked" by default in the Web Filtering Settings. I wonder if that had anything to do with the drag that zfactor is experiencing? It probably should be "unchecked" by default since it causes pages to load differently and may confuse the average user into thinking something is wrong with their computer! I still need to test the firewall and see if the XBOX 360 connection issue has been fixed. Overall, I think it seems to be running well at the moment.

 

I don't know about any predictions, but I do wish they would join some tests. I have been testing the ne Premium beta for a while and I like it pretty we. I think this is my favorite use of a firewall in a suite, very usable and easy to configure, love the rules wizard.
I did throw a few bad links at it but it did not impress on that end. of course it was early beta and still a lot of bugs when I did this. I think they have a great product, but as many people rely on tests it would do them good to join in one.

 

Yes I would like to see some test also it would help us make up our mind if it is truly any good! But everything that I have thrown at it , it stop all of them some old ones from 3 years ago and some new one's from today! I'm running it on all of my VM's which are XP Pro SP3, Vista SP2 and Win 7 all 32bit!

TH

 

i unchecked the ad blocker and its better for sure but still very heavy and slows down chrome and ie8 for me quite a bit

 

A little note on detection ratings.

I just installed Vipre 3 on my last home computers which my GF uses and our son. On both computers MSE was installed and Vipre detected 2 serious Trojans on both which I double checked as not being false positives.
This has made Vipre detect Trojans on 4 of 5 computers that had MSE installed, I'm however very surprised because MSE has been doing so well in tests.
I still think MSE is quite good and has a good balance approached overall but I tested Vipre and it did give my fileserver a noticeable boost so from what I've experienced Vipre is even lighter.

Simon