Get 1 year license of VIPRE Antivirus Premium for free!
February 28, 2010 56
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VIPRE is the “new kid on the block” in the security software arena. While I have not personally used or tested it, VIPRE has received fairly good praise from multiple well known and respected sources. So, it may be worth your while to continue reading this post to learn how to grab 1 year free license of VIPRE Antivirus Premium! For those that don’t know VIPRE Antivirus Premium includes antivirus, antispyware, and firewall features.
To get the 1 year free license, you need to have a Twitter account. If you don’t have one, register one – it takes about 30 seconds. With your Twitter account you must:
- Follow Sunbelt Software on Twitter.
- Post the below announcement on your Twitter page the day VIPRE Antivirus Premium is released to the public.
- Email your Twitter username after you post the announcement to twitter@sunbeltsoftware.com and Sunbelt will email you your free VIPRE Premium subscription.
Take note that the announcement you have to post has not been announced yet nor has the date that VIPRE Antivirus Premium will be released to the public. However, speculation is that VIPRE Antivirus Premium will be released to the public on March 2, 2010 so be ready to post the announcement on Twitter then. Keep in touch with the VIPRE Antivirus Premium Twitter promotion homepage to find out what the announcement you have to post will be; the announcement will probably be announced on the same day as VIPRE Antivirus Premium is released to the public so be sure to definitely check the page on March 2, 2010.
Good luck to everyone!
Update: The promotion is now live! The announcement you must post is @RT SunbeltSoftware #VIPRE 4 Released Today! Get the only antivirus that won’t slow down your computer here: http://www.SunbeltSoftware.com. This promotion is open only for one day – March 2, 2010.
Bah…more trouble than it’s worth…
Thanks for the heads up, though.
G’day Ashraf. I have been a loyal user of Sunbelt’s Personal Firewall and Vipre Antivirus+Antimalware for quite some time now. In all my many years of computer use I have found that Sunbelt’s software to be amongst the most reliable and rock solid internet security programs I have EVER used. To get the opportunity to aquire a FREE 12 MONTH subscription just as my version are about to run out is too good to pass up.
Thank you Ashraff.
Youngatheart1946
Thanks for the heads up – I have also heard that this was a good software.
Will you let us know when we need to post on twitter?
Thanks!
How does this compare to the detection rate and memory usage of Avira AntiVir?
@Kraal FictionWriter: Eh, I don’t think it is too much trouble. You are welcome, nonetheless =).
@Youngatheart1946: Glad Sunbelt Software has earned themselves a loyal customer. You are welcome =).
@Refpeuk: If I remember to do it myself, of course. You are welcome =).
@Liam K: No idea. As I said, I have not tried it myself.
Sunbelt’s Vipre is the BEST AV I have ever used. As another poster said its rock solid and reliable…plus it does use as much system resources as other AV’s do. I bought a new license back in Dec…can this free license be used to extend the one I already have?
@bohus: I don’t know. You will have to ask Sunbelt themselves.
AOA
Thanks Ashraf for pointing out. I have tried their trial version. It is amazing software which do its job as they promise. Please keep this post updated to inform the world when it will be available.
Such one year promos of decent security softwares are always good & thanks to your effort we get aware of these.
Those who want to try may go ahead. Atleast, a promo like this is better than cracking a security software if you dont like to pay for it and do not like the limitations of free ones.
Some free antivirus and antimalware softwares as reviewed on this site and elsewhere have become very competent and capable of keeping your system highly protected. You just need to have a layered protection approach. And even “Kraal FictionWriter” will say that its worth the trouble.
So, I will wait for the AV-Comparatives Test Report (Feb 2010) as per their schedule which is due and may be released soon, may be in a couple of days. That will help to narrow down my choice & select either Avast 5 or Avira.
Hey Ashraf,
SUNBELT ANTISPYWARE PROGRAMS (see for instance the shareware COUNTERSPY)are almost always classified by experts as the best security software out there.
However I’m not a big fan of all-in-one programs such as this FREEBIE that include FIREWALL + AV + ANTISPYWARE in one single package.
What about you??
Do you think that the combination of different award-winning professional (freeware) programs such as COMODO FIREWALL (or OUTPOST FIREWALL or ONLINE ARMOR) + AVAST! 5 FREE ANTIVIRUS + A-SQUARED 4.5 is worse than one single solution such as this one??
Have you already installed AVAST?
Well give VIPRE ANTIVIRUS PREMIUM a try and let me know what you think about it!
I think that is a good combination giovanni is talking about.
Either one of the three free firewalls whichever you feel comfortable with + Avast5/ Avira + A Squared + MalwareBytes + WOT + Spyware Blaster & Spybot for immunization + Key Scrambler (all free) should be a very good combination.
You can use sandboxie & threatfire in addition to that.
You can also use a secure DNS service like Open DNS/ Google DNS/ Ultra DNS.
If you are behind a router with firewall protection its a bonus.
I use all these free security layers except sandboxie which I know is very good but I am not used to it.
@s:
LOL!
All the security tools you mentioned above are installed on my PC right now along with a couple of other (free) extra layer protection that I recently added on my arsenal that I could mention upon request.
However, before making any final decision about this freebie, it would be a great idea if someone could make a comparison between the combination of security SW mentioned above and VIPRE ANTIVIRUS PREMIUM in order to see what’s the best solution among the two ones in terms of DETECTION RATE and PC RESOURCES CONSUMPTION (==> RAM and CPU usage).
What do you make of it??
Are you also skeptical of all-in-one programs (FIREWALL + AV + ANTISPYWARE in one single solution) such as this FREEBIE???
Usually PC SECURITY EXPERTS do not recommend to use such kind of products unless we are talking about award-winning (and expensive) tools such as AVIRA SECURITY SUITE or (maybe) SUNBELT VIPRE Antivirus Premium.
That’s why a comparison between this FREEBIE and the above combination of different FREE security tools would be appreciated!!
Do you agree with me?
Greetings all. The promotion is now open if you want to submit your details.
@Ozzie: Thanks Ozzie! I was just about to post the same thing =).
The message you have to post on Twitter is:
the process of finding and following the vipre people is way too complicated for someone who stays away from the childish sites, and now i know why they aren’t worth wasting time on. i’d love to get free antivirus, but not worth the aggravation of trying to figure out how to follow someone. the sun thingy fails to be found, then when it is, it’s on some list that is convoluted and labyrinthine, at best. hopefully people will just start giving things away rather than causing unwitting people undue baldness over something as stupid as a twit thing. doesn’t anyone know that a twit is not a good thing?
Haha, fail. @RT sends a message to the username “RT”, someone unaffiliated with Sunbeltt Software AFAICS. The proper syntax is RT @SunbeltSoftware, but I suppose I should just do what they say :P
@buyerbeware: I have never used Twitter before in my life (nor Facebook/My Space, etc). A: Not interested. B: I haven’t got the time. In fact can think of nothing worse than being inundated with the minutiae of people’s lives in small bite-sized chunks (a la Twitter). But I did want to check this product out. So I created an account – easy to do – which will now remain dormant until the end of time. I sent off the requisite information and got an immediate response (and not an automatically generated one) saying that I’d get my licence in the next day or so. So a few minutes of my time was all it took. Normally I don’t look twice at anything that requires me to sign up or subscribe to something. But after checking out the reviews of Vipre, I was definitely interested enough to break my usual rule. Anyway, the point is that I can understand where you’re coming from. And that there can be times when something is good enough to make the effort (as little as it actually was).
@buyerbeware
I too appreciate all the free offers here
& more importantly, the camaraderie.
But I’m not a twitterer (spelling??) either, in fact, I just don’t need yet another account & another user ID & password to remember, & to have to begin getting whatever comes from having an open account (do you get ‘twitter spam’??).
You’re right:
“a TWIT is not a good thing.”
However,
This is a TWEET.
TWEET dreams.
Al
@giovanni:
Yes, I completely agree with you.
And please mention those extra tools, many readers will benefit.
@Ozzie:
my nephew helped. i’m not a dummy when it comes to computers, but these convoluted processes involved in the new generation of sites is confusing at best and a nuissance at worst. i am awaiting the arrival of my license to the vipre software. i hope it’s worth giving a huge chunk of my morals for. you wouldn’t believe how limited the choices of usernames are. i tried even using my real name, only to find out that that has been taken as well.
thanx for responding to my rant.
@madalpal:
thanx for your input and for actually reading and responding to my rant.
Well, speculation was correct! I just did it, and should get my license within 24 hours!
Thanks for the heads-up Ashraf!
@buyerbeware: You are not the only one. Twitter is – *gasp* – over my head too. I hate Twitter. (In my defense, though, I have not really made an effort to learn it, either.)
Hey again.
@ buyerbeware & all.
How much personal info does twitter require, & once the viper license comes, can we (those of us non-twits) close the account?
I can’t believe that businesses (say Lowes) ask us to follow them on twitter, what on earth would we want to know of that would be of any interest every few minutes?? I can almost see how keeping up with friends or celebs may have some value, but like every few minutes/hours?
I guess some people have an awful lot of free time that needs to be filled.
Anyway, does anyone know enough about viper that if it can be run on demand only, like disable all shields, auto updates, etc, if not I’ll have to pass.
[In any event, thanks for the offers Ashraf!]
@ giovanni “Are you also skeptical of all-in-one programs (FIREWALL + AV + ANTISPYWARE in one single solution)?”
Well, to me, it’s less of skepticism, than simply wanting full control of the settings
(like viper). I have many of the mentioned security/maintenance software (all freeware, except Windows Onecare that came w the computer & has been continuing the subscription for no extra charge) & more, but to avoid conflicts, I don’t want any other prog to be the ‘King of the Hill’ that refuses to let anyone else do what they want to, to be able to run like how I want them to. Oftentimes, even when you tell a program not to run anything except on demand, you’ll find them running anyway, or putting themselves in the startup menu, like unruly children!
My latest example was Threatfire, that at one point was blocking things I told it to accept, then I shut down all its shields, etc., but………,it came back, & even refused to be stopped, like it was upset that I was telling it to stop, & even refused orders from AnVir task manager, etc.
So……, I thought, OK……, have it your way…………,see ya……, & it got Revo – ed.
My regards to all.
Al
Thanks for posting directions Ashraf. I have no doubt that I will deactivate my profile as soon as I receive the license (for my son’s computer).
There is something disturbing about twitter. All that flitting twitter talk passing through the electric ether. Oh well. I shouldn’t criticize it just because it ain’t my thang.