Previous editions also came with a somewhat dated History Cleaner tool, but that feature vanished with the emergence of the standalone Vipre Privacy Shield utility. If you use it to erase sensitive files, nobody but a forensic expert can recover them. The antivirus includes a handy secure deletion tool. F-Secure Safe and McAfee, by contrast, detected 100% of phishing frauds in their own most recent tests. In a rare alignment, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox all beat its detection rate by 65 percentage points. Vipre missed nearly two-thirds of the verified frauds, one of the lowest scores we’ve seen. That excellent browser protection against malicious downloads didn't carry over to our phishing protection test. More recently, Ziff Davis, PCMag’s parent company, acquired Vipre. 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.

You can still see this history in some of the product's web pages. 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 may be surprised to learn that Vipre has been around for more than 25 years. (Editors' Note: Vipre is owned by Ziff Davis, PCMag's parent company.) A Little Vipre History, Pricing, and Set Up It beats many competitors on price, but it gets uneven results in our testing. Of these four building blocks, Vipre Advanced Security includes all but parental control, along with a few bonus features. And parental control is only a benefit if you have kids and need to monitor their online activity. Spam filtering, once a mainstay, is less and less necessary. What components combine to make a security suite? Antivirus and firewall are almost always included, but beyond that, it varies.

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