Vipre Antivirus 4.0.4194 | 13.40 MBVIPRE
Antivirus was developed to be a high-performance antivirus software
that doesn't slow down your PC like older, traditional security
products.
VIPRE Antivirus offers PC users security against more
complex and malicious threats with its powerful anti-malware protection,
while eliminating the performance and resource problems of many older,
traditional antivirus products. The solution combines antivirus,
antispyware, anti-rootkit and other technologies into a seamless,
tightly-integrated product.
VIPRE (Virus Intrusion Protection
Remediation Engine) is uniquely designed to reduce computer frustration
with its low system resource usage, faster boot times, few popups, and a
broad-range of detection and remediation of viruses, trojans, worms,
and spyware.
Here are some key features of "VIPRE Antivirus":
VIPRE Antivirus core engine:
The
heart of VIPRE Antivirus is its core engine, which is used in all of
VIPRE Antivirus's protection methods—email protection, real-time
protection, and scans. The core engine works at detecting and removing
malware with three layers of detection:
Signature detection:
·
Signature detection is when an exact match is detected against a known
good or bad (malware) file. Bad files are immediately blocked to ensure
that your computer is not infected; good files are allowed.
Heuristic detection:
·
Heuristic detection is characteristic detection. Heuristics look for
known bad patterns inside a file. For example, let's say that a new
variation of an existing malware program is released. VIPRE already
knows characteristics of the existing file. So, it can use that
information to catch the new variation.
Behavioral detection:
·
Behavior detection looks at how a program actually behaves. For
example, many malware programs do predictable things to your computer
system, such as change your homepage on your browser or insert certain
information on your computer.
Security Risk Database:
· The
security risk database contains definitions of known threats and known
goods—often referred to as the whitelist and blacklist. The three
detection methods use definitions, of which are constantly being updated
by SunbeltLabs™ with the help of ThreatNet. For VIPRE Antivirus to be
effective in keeping your computer free from malware, it is important
that the frequent updates are downloaded.
Scans:
· Generally, a
scan consists of VIPRE Antivirus reading your computer's drive(s),
determining what is a threat, and then either removing or quarantining
that threat. The scope of a scan can be customized to target specific
areas or files on your computer and can be triggered various ways,
including manually and automatically at scheduled times.
· Scans are performed based on the VIPRE Antivirus and MX-Virtualization engines.
VIPRE Antivirus engine:
·
VIPRE Antivirus (Virus Intrusion Protection Remediation Engine) is
uniquely designed to reduce computer frustration with its low system
resource usage, faster boot times, few popups, and a broad-range of
detection and remediation of viruses, trojans, worms, and spyware.
MX-Virtualization engine:
·
MX (Malware Execution)-Virtualization is a new heuristic detection
technique for finding malware by running a suspect program in a
controlled setting (emulated environment) that is isolated from doing
any harm to the PC. This emulated environment uses only a small amount
of memory and mimics many core Windows functions, such as the Windows
registry, file system, and communications interfaces to see what the
malware is trying to do.
· The actions of the malware are then
analyzed for behavioral characteristics common to malware. By analyzing
malware in this fashion, VIPRE Antivirus is able to detect many types of
malware without the necessity of creating a constant stream of
dedicated unpackers and signatures for each variant of a piece of
malware.
Active Protection:
· Active Protection (AP) is a
real-time method for detecting malware. AP sits quietly in the
background as you work or browse the Internet, constantly monitoring
files that are executed (run) without causing noticeable strain to your
system.
Email protection:
· Email Protection is a
behind-the-scenes tool that protects your computer from potentially
harmful inbound and outbound email messages. As long as you have email
protection enabled, your computer is protected with automatic email
scanning of all attachments for malware and viruses without you having
to do anything.
· When an infected email attachment is detected,
VIPRE Antivirus will attempt to clean it, ridding the attachment of its
infection. If the infection is so severe that it cannot be cleaned, the
entire attachment is quarantined. VIPRE Antivirus notifies you of
detections and any actions that may be required by you.
FirstScan:
·
FirstScan is a cleaner that runs at boot time (when your computer is
booting up/turning on). This proprietary technology bypasses the Windows
operating system to remove malicious hidden processes, threats,
modules, services, files, Alternate Data Streams (ADS), rootkits, and
registry keys on your computer. FirstScan does not run every time you
start your computer; instead, it is only triggered by a locked malware
file during the cleaning after a scan.
ThreatNet:
· ThreatNet
is a worldwide network of thousands of CounterSpy, VIPRE Antivirus, and
VIPRE Antivirus Premium users sharing and identifying potentially
dangerous program files (both through manual submissions and
automatically), resulting in the blocking of new malware almost as
quickly as it is released into the wild. ThreatNet also enables Sunbelt
Software to track new outbreaks and compile statistical information.
Requirements:
· Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
· 150MB of available free space on your hard drive
· 2x CDROM if you are having the CD shipped to you (not necessary for online download)
· Internet access for definitions updates (Broadband recommended)
·
Supported Email Applications: Outlook 2000+, Outlook Express 5.0+,
Windows Mail on Vista, SMTP/POP3 (Thunderbird, IncrediMail, Eudora,
etc.)
· SSL supported in Outlook and Outlook Express only.
What's New in This Release:
· Scan USB drives on insertion.
· Active Protection: improved handling of known bad and unknown programs.
· Anti-Phishing protection added to Email Protection.
· Sending files for analysis to determine if they are a false positive.
· Bug fixes.
· And much more!