ThreatTrack VIPRE Antivirus / Internet Security / Internet Security Pro Discussion

So today for the first time, I decided to give this one a shot. I downloaded the trial of Internet Security Pro.

Mind you, I have Windows Defender totally disabled including all its startup entries and no other AV present before this. This is a fresh clean install of Windows 10 Anniversary Update

As soon as I installed it, it started updated the definitions and took a while.....

then I got this:



So I thought ok, let me reboot and give it another try, when I rebooted, the AV component was disabled and there was a warning that my signatures are out of date, so I updated them, this time the update finished successfully, the moment I clicked Turn On on the AV components, I got the blue screen of death again. Won't ever bother with anything from ThreatAttack again, very bad start

 

Reply from ThreatAttack staff on the Wilder Security forums:

 

So after testing Vipre Internet Security Pro for 2 days, I like it a lot. The BSOD was fixed with a recent update. My system works great as if there was no AV. Vipre did not cause any performance degradation nor slow browsing speed nor did it interfere with my VPN and no false positives so far.

I have a few suggestions though, after installing it, even though the online installer downloaded the files it needed, the initial signature scan took 10 minutes! that;'s on my 100 MBPS down connection. Also, the AV component was disabled by default upon installation and I had to manually enable it. I thought that's just temporary during the initial virus definitions update but nope, I still had to enable it manually.



On a positive note, the initial system scan took no longer than 10 seconds!



I really like it and as soon as they can sort out their licensing system to enable users to activate/de-activate a machine should one choose to reinstall his AV/OS without having it blacklisted, I'll buy a 3 year license happily.