(Editors' Note: Vipre is owned by Ziff Davis, PCMag's parent company.)Īt $34.99 per year, Vipre is cheaper than the most common antivirus price point, which is roughly $40. It's also flexible in terms of multi-license pricing, with subscriptions available for three, five, and 10 licenses. A 10-license pack costs $69.99-if you use all 10 licenses that’s a hair under $7 per device. This flexibility contrasts quite a bit with Norton AntiVirus Plus, which costs $59.99 per year for a single license and offers no multi-license pricing. Similarly, Trend Micro also offers a $39.95 one-license antivirus for Windows and Mac for more licenses you must upgrade to a Trend Micro suite. Still, compared with most products, Vipre costs a little less than average and offers serious pricing flexibility. Launch the installer, enter the product key, click one button to agree and install, and sit back. Like BullGuard Antivirus, Vipre updates its antivirus definitions quickly and automatically right after installation. Vipre's main window is a study in minimalism, with a status panel that shows the last scan, last update, and scheduled next scan. A menu across the top offers the options MyVIPRE, Account, and Manage.
The default is gray and dark gray with pops of tan and mint green, but from the Account page you can select three other dark schemes and three with lighter backgrounds. You may be surprised to learn that Vipre has been around for more than 25 years. Originally published by Sunbelt Software, its name stood for "Virus Intrusion Protection Remediation Engine." Over the years, the product was bought by GFI and then spun off as a separate company called ThreatTrack. You can still see this history in some of the product's web pages. For example, if you click a malware notification popup for more information, you come to a page with sunbeltsecurity in the URL and several references to ThreatTrack on the page. More recently, Ziff Davis, PCMag’s parent company, acquired Vipre. Independent antivirus testing labs around the world regularly put antivirus products through rigorous testing and report how they fared. We follow four such labs, and Vipre appears in the latest reports from two of those, with good results. Testing experts at AV-Test Institute (Opens in a new window) rate antivirus products on three criteria: protection, performance, and usability.
Here usability means the product doesn't cause trouble by mistakenly flagging legitimate apps and websites as dangerous. A product can take six points in each category, for a maximum total of 18. Vipre achieved a perfect 18 points in the latest test from this lab.
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