Any Opinions on Vipre Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware?
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From: Wolf K on 31 May 2010 08:19 On 28/05/2010 06:36, 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? > Yes, I do, works well. I also have Avira, BAM, Superantispyaware, and S&D, use them all for on-demand scans from time to time. Average rate of infection: less than one per week. Cheers, Wolf K.
From: Wolf K on 31 May 2010 08:21 On 28/05/2010 06:59, PajaP wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:36:15 GMT, 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? > > No, no actual experience, but still confident enough to state > categorically that MSE *is* the best. > > MS developed the OS. They are therefore best able to develop the > software to protect the OS. Bad logic. You assume that what they are able to do they will do. Past record shows the contrary. MSE does have a good rep, first MS anti-malware to make it into the "better than Norton/McAfee" level. cheers, wolf k.
From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 31 May 2010 08:40 Wolf K wrote: > Yes, I do, works well. I also have Avira, BAM, Superantispyaware, and > S&D, use them all for on-demand scans from time to time. Average rate > of infection: less than one per week. Can you explain that last sentence, Wolf? Does it mean your computer gets infected nearly once per week? If that is so, one wonders what is going on, especially since you use all those anti-malware tools. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
From: Wolf K on 31 May 2010 09:24 On 31/05/2010 08:40, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > Wolf K wrote: > >> Yes, I do, works well. I also have Avira, BAM, Superantispyaware, and >> S&D, use them all for on-demand scans from time to time. Average rate >> of infection: less than one per week. > > Can you explain that last sentence, Wolf? Does it mean your computer > gets infected nearly once per week? If that is so, one wonders what is > going on, especially since you use all those anti-malware tools. > I can't really calculate the rate of infection. Haven't had one for six weeks, and that was a minor trojan, which had no observable effect on the system. Prior to that nothing found since before Christmas. So "less than one per week" is, um, technically correct. ;-) XP/SP3/current updates, and Ubuntu 10.04 (which I would use all the time, except that some software comes Windows-only. There is _no_ equivalent to PMView (originally OS/2) on any platform, nor of Irfanview either. And I don't have the skills to write such an app myself. Bah! Also, I'm too lazy to switch OSs just to read news... ;-)) cheers, wolf k.
From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 31 May 2010 10:07
Wolf K wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> Wolf K wrote: >>> Yes, I do, works well. I also have Avira, BAM, Superantispyaware, >>> and S&D, use them all for on-demand scans from time to time. >>> Average rate of infection: less than one per week. >> >> Can you explain that last sentence, Wolf? Does it mean your >> computer gets infected nearly once per week? If that is so, one >> wonders what is going on, especially since you use all those >> anti-malware tools. > > I can't really calculate the rate of infection. Haven't had one for > six weeks, and that was a minor trojan, which had no observable > effect on the system. Prior to that nothing found since before > Christmas. So "less than one per week" is, um, technically correct. > ;-) Aha. If your computer is actually getting infected even as seldom as "once every six weeks" then I would suggest you are doing something wrong. With lack of details, I couldn't hazard a guess why, other than you don't practice 'safe hex.' > XP/SP3/current updates, and Ubuntu 10.04 (which I would use all the > time, except that some software comes Windows-only. There is _no_ > equivalent to PMView (originally OS/2) on any platform, nor of > Irfanview either. And I don't have the skills to write such an app > myself. Bah! Also, I'm too lazy to switch OSs just to read news... > ;-)) Have you tried those couple of apps with Ubuntu and Wine? According to: http://www.pmview.com/sysreq.html the app doesn't appear to be "Windows-intensive" as it runs on all Windows versions from 95 to the present. Back in my Windows days, I used Irfanview, too, but since I dropped Windows in 2006, I've not used it. Maybe I should install it in Wine someday... -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul |