Comments on: Sunbelt Software VIPRE Antivirus review

By: Cd-MaN

Cd-MaN — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:56:45 +0000

@Caleb: I have no first-hand information about the reasons why the two test organizations didn't (as of yet) test VIPRE. AFAIK there is some cost involved for a product participating in the tests, so it might just be that the decision makers at Sunbelt Software felt that this isn't the best way of spending the money...

I too am looking forward for an independent and meaningful testing of the product (VB and CheckMark don't count here, sorry).

By: Caleb

Caleb — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:01:28 +0000

Thanks for your straight forward review. Do you know why AV-Comparatives or AV-Tests or other review companies have not reviewed Vipre as of yet?

By: Marty

Marty — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:08:26 +0000

I have been an avid AVG user for years. Last year I had to disinfect a computer for a friend and ran every scan I could find when finally I stumbled across Sunbelt's Counterspy and ran the scan under the fully functional trial. It found the infection and cleaned it! I was so impressed I never forgot what it had done for me.
Three weeks ago my son managed to really infect his pc (rootkit) while "protected" by AVG Free and Spybot. I ran full scan of everything including Malwarebytes antimalware, AVG, A squared free, Spybot, Superantispyware, GMER, Combofix, SDFix, Vipre etc. They all found something and cleaned the infections out successfully but still his pc was infected with something. I managed to find and clean it out manually but the bottom line is that Vipre, as a full suite, would have stopped the infection as it has done since I bought a home site license (up to 10 pcs), it is by far the lightest, easiest to use and best value for an all in one! I came close to getting the highly rated Zonealarm suite but Vipre is still better value for what I believe is equal protection. Also worth mentioning is that Vipre's firewall is an option purchase, for those with Vista or Windows 7 it saves having to buy that too.

Thanks for reading!