After the files were installed, a wizard asked a few predictable questions on the following topics: Internet and proxy settings, automatic updates (default is every two hours), active protection setting (High, Medium, Low), joining the Sunbelt threat community to report new threats, scan schedule (default is 1 a.m.), adding Vipre to Windows Security Center (default), disabling Windows Defender (default), and activating and registering for technical support (name and e-mail). The Vipre installation took us a few minutes and did not require a reboot. Vipre requires Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista it is not compatible with Windows 95, 98, or ME, Macintosh, or Linux. There is a 15-day, fully functional, free trial available. If you are a current CounterSpy v2 customer, you can upgrade for $9.95. Vipre costs $29.95 for a single user license, $39.95 for a three-user license, and $49.95 to license all the computers in your house. While it remains to be seen how Vipre holds up against the 2009 antivirus offerings, our initial impressions are very good, and should hold up when more established antivirus vendors start releasing their products later in 2008. Ordinarily new antivirus products, such as Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare, suffer through a few years of 'getting the code right.' We don't see that here in our opinion, Vipre has vaulted to the upper third of the antivirus products on the market today. While other standalone antispyware vendors merely added antivirus to their existing offering, Sunbelt Software created an entirely new product, Vipre.

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