Review by Mathew A. Shember

I had used their counterspy product and had been impressed with it. I had been meaning to try out vipre for awhile.

The installer is small and it was easy to install the package.

The deep scan was pretty quick. Didn’t time it against AVG but I think it was faster and it found a couple things AVG missed. The basic package will take care of viral and malware problems. I will say the malware detector is far better then Symantec and McAfee(used both).

There wasn’t a way to centrally manage several installations but this is a home edition so that function is not needed as much as it would be in a corporate environment.

The automation aspects are easy. As with most packages you can automate the downloads of new dictionaries and scans.

Overall, this was an easy test and I am going to consider upgrading to the premium edition and get the firewall.

-update-nnOne thing I did run into is there really isn’t a decent protection for browsers. I had a browser jacker which required another tool to kill it. Probably the firewall version deals with this?