ControlNow (Discontinued) vs VIPRE

Likelihood to Recommend

Its middle of the road and should suit most applications well

Director of IT Operations

COMP Performance GroupAutomotive, 201-500 employees

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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Mike Braddock

Network & Systems Administrator

Mortgage Investors GroupFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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Pros

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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John Stewart

Director of IT Operations

COMP Performance GroupAutomotive, 201-500 employees

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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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Paul Li

Senior Associate

Stir ArchitectureArchitecture & Planning, 11-50 employees

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Cons

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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John Stewart

Director of IT Operations

COMP Performance GroupAutomotive, 201-500 employees

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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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Bill Holmberg

IT Director

Wayne Transports, Inc.Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

No score

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VIPRE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Plastics Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

No score

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VIPRE 9.5

Based on 2 answers

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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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Plastics Company, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

ControlNow more nimble and less impactful on the local PC

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John Stewart

Director of IT Operations

COMP Performance GroupAutomotive, 201-500 employees

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We have encountered many different anti-virus programs over the years. VIPRE combines an anti-virus program with anti-spyware to provide comprehensive protection against viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, and spyware. And it still tops other competitors by being affordable, with very low overhead.

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Jonathan Hozeska

Partner

Network Services GroupComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

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

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John Stewart

Director of IT Operations

COMP Performance GroupAutomotive, 201-500 employees

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Vipre pushed and update for device control last year. It caused our workstations to reboot every 20 min. They resolved it within a day - which to me was too long. But in the end, we got everything sorted out. This certainly caused pause for the next renewal cycle. We did end up sticking with them.
Vipre helps keep us from having to touch every single computer we add to the domain. Remote deployment is one of my favorite features. Deploy on-demand is also good to have available - which it does.
Patch management again - it is a key reason we stuck with Vipre. Endpoint protection is the way to go.

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Michael Metalios

I.T. Administrator

The Y in Central MarylandNon-Profit Organization Management, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No