I track the detection statistics daily of VIPRE against 30+ competitors against hundreds of thousands of real malware in the wild. The detection stats on VirusTotal do not reflect reality. We will reach out to them to find out what exactly is going on with their zoo.
I am happy to share data with anyone off-list, just ping me directly. Alex Eckelberry CEO, Sunbelt Software Part of GFI Software Family From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives I've had VIPRE for a couple of years now, and was fortunately not hit hard with the false positive problems others have had. With about 180 Win XP machines, I've had only a half dozen infections in that time - all but one of the rogue AV kind, so I have been feeling pretty good. However, the chart that was linked to is a bit worrying - the only popular business class AV solution that scored worse was CA (my former solution), and most of the others - McAfee, ESET, Kaspersky, Sophos to name a few - show significantly better results. It would be interesting to hear a comment from Sunbelt - a little reassurance needed here. :-) ________________________________ From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre effectiveness & false positives I don't know what you have now, but I can tell you from experience at various client sites over the last year or so, none of the following was without issues : Trend, McAfee, Symantec SAV & SEP On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Carl Houseman <c.house...@gmail.com<mailto:c.house...@gmail.com>> wrote: For all of you staunch Vipre supporters, I'm just wondering, are you still so staunch given the various false positives over the past year? It seems like I remember reading here about one every quarter or so, and I can confirm at least 3 since (from online records and messages I didn't delete) since June 2009. And how many of you have had to deal with infections despite having an up-to-date Vipre? Issue I'm debating is a switch from another product to Vipre, and even though the price is very good, I'm looking at the Virusbtn RAP quadrant (http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml) with a very poor showing for "Sunbelt". Including the false positives and cost of switching, it doesn't add up to a good choice. At least if the protection was much better, then the occasional false positive might be justified. Is there any 3rd party comparison or statistic that gives Vipre a better than average result? I'm not looking for endorsements or praise for their tech support - heard that all before. But if you've had Vipre on 10 seats or more and have kept track of live infections after a year or longer, and effort to avoid or recover from false positives, that would be great to know. Please include total number of seats in any report. Carl Confidentiality Notice: ****************** This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by an yone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are no t the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete a nd destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
