Vipre anti virus

We found setting up a scheduled scan to be much easier than in some competing products, which is good. We asked for a full scan on a Friday at 3 a. We left the quick scan setup to happen each day at 10 a. Users can also opt to change the scan from a Full Scan to a Custom Scan.

This is ideal for anybody who wants to scan for specific things including cookies, programs that are running, the Windows Registry, archived and compressed files, as well as a specific deep level scan that searches for signs of Trojans or Rootkits. Unlike some other antivirus programs, however, there is no way to set up a custom scan of particular files or folders of interest to you other than the Windows Registry.

Thus, you will need to perform a full scan each time that you want to check all of the files and folders on your machine outside of the custom options provided. Overall, we found this to be no real issue and were happy with the custom options provided by Vipre — which give users the ability to seek out particularly stubborn infections.

With our scheduled scan setup, we decided to check out the rest of the available features. To do so, we simply clicked on Manage in the top right of the dashboard. Here we gained access to various extra settings and features. Here you can decide things like how often to delete any threats that have been quarantined, you can turn off the advanced active protection , which by default is switched on and will scan files when they are opened or copied and block any potential malicious processes.

This prevents exploits from being downloaded by your browser. This comes turned off by default, to ensure that the internet works normally, for beginners not used to dealing with this kind of feature.

However, it is a useful addition that has a whitelisting feature that advanced users can employ to whitelist any websites they trust that are blocked or work irregularly with the feature turned on. Blocks websites that could be dangerous, and comes turned on by default. As is the case with the firewall, the scanning of removable drives, and any other features that Vipre considers essential.

However, users can opt for a few other options here as well, so it is definitely worth checking the settings if you want Vipre to do a full scan, for example, when it finds something during the daily scheduled quick scan.

We particularly like that there is a small information icon next to each parameter, which easily allows movies to get a clear picture of what each setting actually does. Clicking on updates allows you to check that the antivirus is up to date.

This is important to ensure that the scan is being effective and includes all the latest threat definitions are up to date. Again, Vipre ensures that this is set up to check the cloud for new definitions every half hour, which is extremely thorough. Of course, Vipre will only be able to provide this service as long as you are actively connected to the internet, so this is something worth thinking about.

In this section, you will also find the third party patching feature. This ensures that all the software on your computer is being kept up to date with any new patches that become available. This comes turned on by default to happen automatically without notifying you, however, the option is there to ask for your confirmation before patching occurs.

We would recommend that you switch this setting on so that you have some visibility over what is getting updated and when. In this tab, you can set up the antivirus suite to help protect your emails. These features come switched on by default to work with Outlook. These browser-based email clients are protected differently, any potentially malicious incoming files will be quarantined using the Advanced Active Protection that is always running in the background in real-time.

The final two tabs available are the Firewall and Privacy settings. The firewall settings are pretty comprehensive, which is good. They allow you to gain granular control over firewall rules, and to set up unique features such as the Stealth Mode, which prevents your computer from automatically responding to potentially malevolent port scans.

An option is also there to scan for threats that appear to be coming from within the same LAN, however, this is turned off by default. Overall, the firewall features are pretty self-explanatory, and for those users who lack knowledge of firewalls, it comes setup natively to provide the kind of protection most users need, which is good. A learning feature allows you to monitor what the firewall is doing via notifications, and allows you to teach Vipre how to behave when confronted with different types of network traffic.

This is an advanced feature that most people won't require, but it is nice to see this level of attention to detail. To get highly accurate and trustworthy information about how Vipre performs, we opted to rely on test data provided by the independent antivirus auditor AVTest.

This is a highly trusted independent organization that tests a broad range of antivirus programs every year to see exactly how effective those services are. AVTest most recently tested Vipre in August of At that time it awarded Vipre a 5. The results of the audit revealed that on Windows, Vipre was able to deal with 9. This is higher than the industry average. This reveals this antivirus to be highly effective at dealing with incoming threats in real-time.

The antivirus was last tested in June However, at that time, the antivirus was given a six out of six for protection, which shows that this is a solid antivirus across platforms. Overall, we consider these results to be extremely good, and we can certainly recommend this antivirus as a service that will provide reliable scanning against dangerous exploits.

In terms of usability and performance. AVTest rated Vipre with a six out of six on both categories. The antivirus was found to only cause a minimal impact to page load times and device performance, which is excellent news. The antivirus also made no false detections of any kind , which is far better than the 15 false positives that are the industry average. Overall, these results were fantastic, and show that Vipre will not have much of a detrimental effect on computer or internet performance while it is in use.

As is always the case, we checked Vipre's privacy policy to see if we could spot any dubious data practices that might ring alarm bells. A deeper look at the policy reveals that the firm may collect personal data from you when you use its apps.

This is rather vague, especially when considering the VPN app. The firm also admits that it may receive extra information about you from the third-party apps and services you use. This reveals that Vipre is collecting data about you not just directly, but from other sources.

We would recommend that you stick to a dedicated no-logs VPN provider if you want to be certain about the privacy levels you are receiving while connected to it.

Apart from this fairly major quibble, we have to say that the kinds of data collection and data processing that this antivirus company admits to is pretty standard fare.

With that said, let it be known that the policy does state that the firm will collect the following information: IP address, device-level identifiers, operating system type, browser type, the dates and times of connecting to a site, app usage statistics, app settings, dates and times of connecting to an app, location data, and other technical communications information some of which may constitute Personal Data , username, password, security login details, usage data, and other aggregated statistical information.

This is a lot of information, and it does appear to raise very serious questions over the privacy levels that you will be getting if you choose to use its VPN. Again, we recommend that you stick to only using the antivirus service, which rules out paying for the expensive Ultimate Security Bundle in our opinion. Anybody in need of help will unfortunately not find any real live chat support agents available on the website.

Any questions will have to be asked via the support center on its website, and while you can ask the automated bot questions if you want to, it will only be able to recommend pre-made articles and guides from the knowledge base to you.

Failing that, you will need to create a ticket, which the firm promises to reply to within 24 hours. However, please bear in mind that support agents are based in the US, so depending on where you live you may have to wait the full 24 hours. In fact, in our experience, some requests can take up to two days to be resolved.

The good news is that you can access the support center from the application itself by clicking on Account. This allows you to quickly get to the help center on its website without needing to open your browser and search. Overall, we found the support to be a little lackluster considering the cost of a subscription and what you can get elsewhere. With the help of quick scan mode, you can scan the most important areas of your system to discover unknown threats by using a single click.

It will provide you multiple languages and that enables you to use it any language as you assigned. If the software found any outdated programs in your system, it will detect and block proactively to avoid exploit kits as well as vulnerable attacks. It provides you a rootkit scanner which helps you to discover hidden malicious files in your system to protect from unauthorized remote access as well as cyber attacks. The Edge Protection mainly designed to protect your browsing activities from suspicious attacks.

In addition, it will give you the intimation whenever you trying to download a harmful file to your system as well as it protects your system from exploit kits. The software provides you a social watch feature that will examine your social media activities from the background and it gives you an instant alert when you are trying to open or click on a malicious post. Additionally, it enables you to remove harmful links and media files with the help of a single click.

It provides you a spam filter that helps you to remove suspicious messages as well as attachments from your entire email account. The program blocks phishing scripts with ease to protect from identity thieves. With the help of browser cleaner, you can erase history, cache, and cookies from the most popular web browsers by using its single click. It is compatible with all Windows versions. As the resource consumption of this application is extremely low, it can be run on any computer and it will not be slowed down.

That doesn't mean it offer less protection than other similar applications. Vipre Antivirus offers total protection, protecting against virus, rootkits and more.

In addition it also protects your e-mail inbox.