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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Sunbelt Software slashes price of VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware

By | November 24, 2008, 9:42am PST

Summary: A few months ago I rolled out Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware onto my desktop and notebook systems here, and I’ve not looked back. Today the company announces a dramatic price drop starting Black Friday for all home users.

A few months ago I rolled out Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware onto my desktop and notebook systems here, and I’ve not looked back. Today the company announces a dramatic price drop starting Black Friday for all home users.

Here’s the deal:

Sunbelt Software … today announced an unprecedented price cut on its top-selling high-performance security product, VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware(TM) starting Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), November 28, 2008. A single one-year subscription license is being offered for $9.95, close to 70% off the normal $29.95 retail price. Users that desire more than one user license can also take advantage of a flat $20 discount on any other VIPRE licensing option, including the unlimited home site license where all PCs in a single household are protected with a single site license.

I’ve no hesitation or reservation in recommending VIPRE. I like it because it’s lightweight (so much so that I’ll happily keep it running while playing games such as Crysis and Far Cry 2, even allowing it to carry out deep scans while I’m playing), no-nonsense and does what it says on the tin. Check it out here. If there’s a better antivirus/antispyware scanner out there, I’ve not found it (and I’ve been actively looking).

At $29.95 VIPRE was a good product at a great price. At $9.95 it’s a virtual steal!

Read my past thoughts on the product here and here.

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera.

Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include "Build the Ultimate Custom PC", "Beginning Programming" and "The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide". He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

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$10 off Vipre here from genuine reseller.
vikramjits@... 12th Aug 2010
www.antivirusjunction.com
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Vipre - Enterprise and "home" version
ShoreLeave 24th Nov 2008
I too am another big fan of Vipre. Several of my clients run the Enterprise version and I run the home version myself.

I have liked this product since being a beta tester for the home version. (Sunbelt Software, which makes Vipre, also has a great Exchange Email Archiver program).

I have no affiliation with Sunbelt, other than being a happy customer.
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I have a better recommendation
iravgupta Updated - 24th Nov 2008
I recommend Avira Antivir Professional(not the free version). Advantages over Vipre - 1) Updated 6-8 times a day. 2)Top Performer in 3rd party tests. 3)Excellent Support. 4)Best Heuristics. Actually the Test results are alone enough to prove Avira`s superiority. I would ask you to perform some simple benchmarks in case you have doubts over its resource usage and performance as compared to Vipre.

If you want a free solution then just one product stands out - avast! Home edition. Its performance is excellent. Does not hamper the system at all. But its scan speed is slow. I guess thats the price you pay for paying no price.
Hello,

I've read your recommendations here on your promotion of VIPRE and/or AVIRA packages. NOW, since you have thrown down the gauntlet. What makes these programs superior to KASPERSKY Internet Security.? I would really like to know. Thank you.
What bothered me with VIPRE is that when I installed it, my work PC hung completely during startup. This was most likely due to mapped drives that Windows never reconnects properly on its own. In Safe mode the Windows Installer service is nto available. I had to hunt down the startup entry first. Because of this, I could never run a test at all.
While that is a good thing...how is the performance of the program in preventing/eliminator/removing viruses, spyware and malware?
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I bought 6 licenses at US$6.69 each (Black Monday
Sale) for my home network and two netbooks. I hate the
program. Everything is a suspicious program, so it
runs its mouth off just like that little boy who cried
"Wolf!" so many millennia ago. I have to sit there
whenever anything is installed and click on "Allow"
for as long as the app is being installed. That can be
a real pain in the finger. So I just turn it off. I
didn't set it for "Paranoid" either. I much preferred
AVG Anti-Malware/Anti-Virus.

And it slows down my son's PC something awful when it
scans. I recommend that if you have it, that you
ignore Sunbelt's recommendation to update every 4
hours. Every 12 hours is good enough. Six downloads
and scans a day are far too many. And none of the
downloads are combined, so if you've been away for
three days, you've got to download every one that you
missed -- at least it seems to me to be that way.


Yes, I have seen that the product is good performing. Is that because it does not have a lot of signatures? As another reader stated, how does it perform as a product, not as a footprint.
I am not seeing this product on the VB100 or ICSA labs list....
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$10 off Vipre here from genuine reseller.
vikramjits@... 12th Aug 2010
www.antivirusjunction.com

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