The Uninstallers we create essentially just call the existing AV's built in uninstall process so it should be as effective as uninstalling the other AV through add / remove programs (we grab the uninstall string from the registry and run it) - however that often doesn't work as well as expected.
We do add some other code, for example where Symantec is configured to require a password to uninstall it we try to disable that requirement. If you have an existing AV that is centrally managed and the management console has a method to uninstall it centrally which works then I would recommend using that before installing Vipre. This does leave the PC's without AV for a short period of time so it's best to do this when users are out - it requires reboots anyway. After moving to Vipre, if you have something like SMS I would recommend searching for any machines that still have any traces of the old AV's still on them and clean them up manually - we often see old file system drivers still hooked in which can really slow PCs down Regards, Phil Garven - Product Specialist - Sunbelt Exchange Archiver GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software www.sunbeltsoftware.com<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com> Tel: +1 877-757-4094 ________________________________ From: Cameron [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre and deployment Unless the uninstaller has changed, it didn't work very well for us either with Symantec. It ended up being easier to remove it from each workstation and then push down the Vipre agent. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:10 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I can't speak for Symantec, but at least for AVG 8.5, Vipre's uninstaller didn't do a very good job of removing it, and several times I had to go to the local machine and manually delete the service. YMMV, though. From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Agent-Uninstallers/ From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment We still use Symantec on all our workstations. Would love to move over to Vipre. We have about a hundred workstations. Would I still have to go to all the workstations to change from Symantec to Vipre or is there now a way to do this from the server? From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment Yea, if I do it with the Console, I need to enable file and print services on the wkst etc... If I use a GPO, I don't. From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre and deployment You can deploy Vipre as an MSI from the console. I suppose that you can push the MSI with GP if you like. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: For you guys with experience using Vipre (I presume it's come a long way by now...) I am curious about a couple things. I gave up on Avira, my first point of support was the var in Canada who proved beyond a shadow of a doubt to be useless. Sophos required far too much reconfiguration of the wkst's and didn't offer their agent as an MSI so I could roll it out myself. Awaiting info from Kasperksy... Can the agents for Vipre be provided by MSI's so I don't have to change anything on the wkst's except maybe a port rule between it and the mgmt host after I push it via GP's? 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