I started using Vipre when I was trying to remove a Trojan from my mother’s PC. Tried this, tried that. No luck. Remembered Vipre. It identified the culprit within seconds after startup.
Thing was, it would say it cleaned the file, but it would come right back. Then I started paying attention to the popups Vipre was creating as the Trojan started doing its thing. Vipre was telling me that winlogon.exe was attempting to write an infected file. The Trojan was cleverly hidden inside winlogon.exe. Replaced the file with a known good one in safe mode, problem solved. And, because I was able to unload Norton and a couple other things, her machine actually became snappy again because it had more free memory. Bought her a 3-year license and a home network license for myself. More recently my son’s laptop got hit with a Trojan. Long and short of it is that Vipre tech support spent several hours over a period of a few days working with him to get his system cleaned. No extra charge, even when I offered! Emmitt Dove Manager, Converting Applications Development Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [email protected] (203) 214-5683 m (203) 643-8022 o (203) 643-8086 f [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:09 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: OT - Enterprise av/malware options To those interested.. I checked several reviews and found at least one head on bench mark test. All reveiws very positive in favor of Vipre. The benchmark ran by ZDnet (on exact imaged machines) Resource usage: Norton 19% Kapersky 15% Vipre 1.5% (less than a 10th) Looks like Emmitt's warm fuzzy feelings is well founded! (Concerning Vipre anyway) Better yet... take note! I talked to Sunbelt about the Vipre Enterprise suite. They are running a marketing campaign to "deeply penetrate" the AV software market. Current Special.....per seat... $10 Note that a server is simply a seat! They state that I can push the suite out to networked desktops over the network and manage them from one machine like a true enterprise package should. (At a small fraction of cost) So for small investment, virus, malware, spyware, email scanning all in one for $10 per seat. Hmmmm.. I think I will give it a try! Hopefully all will turn out as promised. Thanks Emmitt! I remember you mentioning this before, but did not think about them having an enterprise package. -Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "ttc inc" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:37:09 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: OT - Enterprise av/malware options Thanks Emmitt, I have a call into Sunbelt now. I will see how thier Enterprise package stacks up. It looks like they have a trial Enterprise version. However, loading something that wide spread is not something I would take lightly. -Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emmitt Dove" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 1:15:46 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: OT - Enterprise av/malware options Sigh. When I look at the services from all users I find another 21.5 megs. So now we’re upt to 24 megs vs. 123 megs for Mcafee. Emmitt Dove Manager, Converting Applications Development Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [email protected] (203) 214-5683 m (203) 643-8022 o (203) 643-8086 f [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emmitt Dove Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:40 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: OT - Enterprise av/malware options BTW, the footprint does change from time-to-time; right now it is at 2.5 megs. But that’s a whole lot smaller than the usual AV alone. Right now Mcafee (Enterprise 8.5.0i) is taking up 123 megs on my work laptop. Emmitt Dove Manager, Converting Applications Development Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [email protected] (203) 214-5683 m (203) 643-8022 o (203) 643-8086 f [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emmitt Dove Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:19 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: OT - Enterprise av/malware options Bob, Not being used in an enterprise, but I’m quite enamored of Vipre from Sunbelt Software. They have an enterprise version. The nicest thing about Vipre is its incredibly small footprint in memory (1.8 megs on the machine from which I am sending this message, with real-time AV and AS, including email protection for Outlook.) Emmitt Dove Manager, Converting Applications Development Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [email protected] (203) 214-5683 m (203) 643-8022 o (203) 643-8086 f [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:04 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - OT - Enterprise av/malware options Time for me to reconsider my options for an enterprise antivirus/malware solution. Trying to find reviews is about like asking which is better, Ford or GM. McAfee gets good reviews on Enterprise but gets trashed in reviews on single machines. Same with Norton / Symatec. (This does not make much sense to me.) So I thought I would ask a brief question as to what our faithful Rbaser's might be using in an enterprise solution. (Server based, that protects servers and can push out to attached clients) Thanks, -Bob
