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4 stars
Version: Vipre Antivirus + Antispyware 3.1
"Good realtime protection, HIPS/behavior protection"
Pros: Vipre, just like it's sister product Counterspy, provides good realtime and on-demand protection from today's malware. Updates daily and provides nice side features such as a system explorer and temporary/internet history deletion.
It's HIPS (Host Intrusion Protection System) provides the ability to minor unknown programs and their activities on the system. It maintains a whitelist of good application and watches unknown application if they are trying to change any number of system variables (startup items, internet settings, policies...)
Definition database is comprehensive and is very comparable to other antivirus programs.
Very promising first effort.
Cons: Like all new software it has bugs.
While it aims to be light on a system, and in general it is, it does cause slow downs when checking an executable file on-access and on-execution. Hopefully something they will fix soon.
Various other unusual problems can plague the interface and operation of the program. again something that hopefully will be resolved in the future.
Hit and miss on the stability on some configurations of computers. Try only if you have a backup in place.
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