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Monday 13 February 2012

Vipre Antivirus Review

VIPRE Antivirus Premium includes features for total security protection, including a 2-way firewall, malicious web filtering, ad blocking, antiphishing, and more.
- VIPRE Antivirus Premium runs seamlessly without significantly impairing system performance and is designed for an unobtrusive user experience.
- At VIPRE's core is an antivirus and antispyware engine that merges the detection of all types of malware into a single efficient and powerful system.
- The all-new anti-rootkit technology finds and disables malicious hidden processes, threats, modules, services, files, Alternate Data Streams (ADS), or registry keys on a user's system.
- Vipre has worked to reduce notification pop-ups and warnings to a minimum so that you are not bothered again and over.
- Vipre antivirus makes sure you can’t get or spread a virus, worm, or Trojan horse.
- Malware Detection prevents unauthorized scripts from webpages and websites that are infected.
- Anti-Rootkit ensures even the toughest and most sophisticated threats are kept off your PC.
- VIPRE Antivirus Premium includes comprehensive protection against email viruses, with direct support for Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail; and support for any email program that uses POP3 and SMTP (Thunderbird, IncrediMail, Eudora, etc.).
Vipre Premium Antivirus 2011

Vipre's anti-malware software is extremely popular throughout the world - it is used by 50 million people spread around 165 countries, speaking 15 different languages. The majority of users opt for the low cost Vipre Antivirus, but most customers choose to pay for more robust protection from Vipre: The Vipre Premium Antivirus 2011 ($39.95). The latest version of this suite has some considerable improvements over free version and previous versions.

We found the installation, including signature update and reboot, took about 12 minutes. There is a new 'optimization scan' which flags known-good programs - subsequent malware scans ignore these programs and run faster. On our test system, a full scan took 50 minutes, subsequent scans about 18 minutes.

The latest version of Vipre Antivirus is very similar in appearance to the previous version, apart from the enhanced speed. The new Vipre Premium is super fast antivirus which does not slow down your computer like many other antivirus programs do. It has some great features that help you automate the virus blocking process. Configuring this antivirus software is also a breeze.

On a couple of test systems which were already infected with malware, Vipre had no problems installing. We are able to install the antivirus and were able to detect all the viruses. It also detected all the malware on the system without any major problems. A few high-risk malware caused a little problem, however,we were able to remove those malware in the safe-mode.
Independent Antivirus Labs Results

AV-Comparatives has improved its rating for the latest version of Vipre - last time it was rated Standard for proactive detection and on-demand detection - this time it was rated Advanced for on-demand detection.

West Coast Labs and ICSA Labs certify Vipre for malware detection and removal - last year it passed West Coast Labs' certification for cleaning, too. Virus Bulletin has awarded Vipre Antivirus the VB100% award for all of the latest 10 Windows-based test sessions.
Improved Malware Removal

The Vipre antivirus comes with an award winning malware scanner that has a separate advanced rootkit scanning component. So it isn't surprising that we found the premium suite performs better at malware removal than other malware removal tools available.

The Vipre Premium Antivirus scored slightly above average, 4.6, in a test for removing commercial malware and antispyware. In the advanced rootkit test, the suite scored great - 8.0 points - it detected all the rootkit samples and removed them all. Norton Antivirus scored the second highest in this test, with 7.9 points.

In the Rogue Security Software (scareware) test, Vipre's scanner detected every sample and was able to fully remove them all, scoring 7.5 points, better than many other antivirus software. The best performer in this test was BitDefender antivirus, with 8.0 points.

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