ControlNow (Discontinued) vs. VIPRE

Its middle of the road and should suit most applications well

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Robust protection with a small footprint. Catches all malware and viruses, while respecting the exclusions put in place by our organization. Pricing was very aggressive compared to other products. Great management application, where you can manage the installations and even update third-party apps on those machines from that portal. Great product for a great price.

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• An instant scan of file level downloads so that introduction of a variant file is limited before the scan engine clears it.
• Dashboard use of the agents available allows for near real-time review and action without directed access to the station.

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• Vipre Antivirus constantly scans your computer in the background without a need for user intervention.
• In one program Vipre can successfully protect all your computing devices from both malicious virus attacks as where vicious spyware intrusions.
• You won't feel any slowness or sluggishness with Vipre installed & running in the background while you continue to use your computing devices.

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• Dashboard refresh when you have over 100 end agents can be lagging at times
• The agent install process has potential to hang without alert or warning unless your paying attention through the complete install
• The silent install process can be problematic when dealing with large-scale networks with varied OS models

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• When using older versions of Outlook I have seen the plugin cause sluggish behavior and hangs, in 2007 and 2010 versions specifically.
• For some business applications, there are .dll's and libraries and application .exe's that can be misidentified as virus or trojans. While it is fairly easy to whitelist these once discovered, new implementors should be aware that they will need to carefully look through their initial virus scan reports to find and whitelist these items.

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VIPRE is very easy to use and administer. You have a lot of functionality from the server on what you can do with the clients. It has proved useful when I can't access a client any other way. I can reboot the computer from the server and then usually get back into that machine.

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VIPRE support is usually pretty quick. Sometimes you have to get a lot of information to send back so they can see the issue. This has not been too bad and I understand why it's needed. VIPRE also has a free rescue tool that is very useful and easy to use. There have been others but VIPRE seems to keep theirs updated. It's my go-to even outside of work.

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ControlNow more nimble and less impactful on the local PC

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We got a chance to buy AVG Business edition and we tried to install that throughout our organization and most specifically to our important systems but it was not compatible with a majority of them and we found AVG as high-demand software with a mediocre speed of action and more pricing. So in comparison to AVG, VIPRE is good in all aspects.

• At current we are on build up and the ROI isnt a factor

Incentivized

• The VIPRE MSP program cost effectively lets me integrate protection into every endpoint I protect.
• Integration with ConnectWise for deployment and billing has increased our revenue.
• Integration with ConnectWise for management means we keep endpoint protection coverage consistently above 99% to secure our clients.

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