Any Opinions on Vipre Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware?
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From: ~BD~ on 28 May 2010 13:17 "FromTheRafters" <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message news:hto7f9$11p$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... | "David Kaye" <sfdavidkaye2(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message | news:hto6at$q79$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... | >A customer has installed Vipre and I'm curious to know if it's any | >better than | > MS Security Essentials. Does anybody have *actual* experience with | > Vipre? | | IIRC Mow Green uses it? I don't know if he posts here though. Steve Wechsler (aka MowGreen) AumHa VSOP MS-MVP Consumer Security ......... is a moderator at Aumha Maybe a good place to ask your question, David Kaye. http://aumha.net/ HTH -- Dave BD
From: David Kaye on 28 May 2010 13:57 sfdavidkaye2(a)yahoo.com (David Kaye) wrote: >A customer has installed Vipre and I'm curious to know if it's any better than >MS Security Essentials. Does anybody have *actual* experience with Vipre? So, I take it that the answer is no; nobody here has used it yet.
From: badgolferman on 28 May 2010 14:36 David Kaye wrote: >sfdavidkaye2(a)yahoo.com (David Kaye) wrote: > >>A customer has installed Vipre and I'm curious to know if it's any >>better than MS Security Essentials. Does anybody have actual >>experience with Vipre? > >So, I take it that the answer is no; nobody here has used it yet. Using an anti-virus won't really tell you how good it is. A reputable organization has to test how well it responds to malware. It sounds to me you are just asking for an evaluation of its user interface. -- "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
From: David Kaye on 28 May 2010 15:06 "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Using an anti-virus won't really tell you how good it is. A reputable >organization has to test how well it responds to malware. It sounds to >me you are just asking for an evaluation of its user interface. There are lots of people posting on these groups who have inside knowledge as to how good these products are. For instance, we all agree that Norton and McAfee are useless, that MBAM is excellent, and that AVG is so-so.
From: gufus on 28 May 2010 17:08
Hello, Beauregard! You wrote on Fri, 28 May 2010 07:52:38 -0400: >> MS developed the OS. They are therefore best able to develop the >> software to protect the OS. | | That made me laugh!! Thanks. | Me too... -- With best regards, gufus. E-mail: stop.nospam.gbbsg(a)shaw.ca |