My Vipre Review
May 25, 2018

My Vipre Review

Andrew Murphy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VIPRE

We use Vipre for our Anti-Virus. We are using the Advanced Active Protection, Email Protection, Email Alerts, Exception Groups, Patch Management. This helps with one layer of security to protect our computers. Protecting against Malware, Spyware, Phishing, etc has to be a multiple levels of protection. Vipre notifies us of problems very aggressively. Most alerts we receive it has quarantined or blocked issues from happening to our users.

Pros

  • Virus Protection You have to have Virus protection and that's the base of Vipre
  • Email Protection for the email client - Anti-Phishing. Another layer of protection
  • Web protection - Another layer to help protect you. You can also put in exception lists as well as block websites.

Cons

  • We receive a lot of notices from Vipre. This is probably less of a negative but more of a nuisance as we admins get spammed by the amount of Virus that are detected.
  • Occasionally you have to reinstall the clients if they stop updating.
  • Occasionally you have to force agent/definition updates. It's much better when it works automatically.
  • The only negative impact is when we bought another company and I merged their pc's into our AD it took a long time to load Vipre remotely. If you can load it on the same site your server is you have a much shorter install time.
  • I have found using Vipre along with Meraki MX routers, and Barracuda Email and Spam gateway you have a great 3 level of protection!
  • Support is very helpful when you need assistance.
The dashboard is so much better and more intuitive in Vipre than Trend Micro. We migrated a company we purchased away from Symantec. I never used the cloud option of Symantec Endpoint Protection. I didn't choose Vipre, I inherited it with my new position. I am very happy that we have it and it has made my life easier. We were a shop of 1 and now we are an IT shop of 2. Using Vipre is pretty close to a set it and forget it model. Once setup you don't have to baby sit it much it just does the job. It is great for small IT shops!
Small Shops it's a great tool as you don't have to chase virus around as much. It does a great job and informs you. You can use the console to initiate scans on systems remotely so the user doesn't even know you're doing it. Less hassle getting a hold of users.

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