Norton Small Business vs. VIPRE

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Norton Small Business
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Cybercriminals increasingly target small businesses because they expect it to be easy. Norton Small Business is an antivirus service available as a subscription for protecting a multitude of endpoints, from NortonLifeLock (formerly Symantec).
$99.99
per year
VIPRE
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
VIPRE (formerly known as ThreatTrack Security) is an antivirus solution, now part of J2 Global's portfolio of cloud offerings and applications since the February 2018 acquisition.N/A
Pricing
Norton Small BusinessVIPRE
Editions & Modules
5 Devices
$99.99
per year
10 Devices
$149.99
per year
20 Devices
$249.99
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Norton Small BusinessVIPRE
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Norton Small BusinessVIPRE
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User Ratings
Norton Small BusinessVIPRE
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Norton Small BusinessVIPRE
Likelihood to Recommend
We are a small company; Norton Small Business gives us the freedom for our remote employees to work securely using their personal laptop /smartphone. Less appropriate: Someone with a few separate locations that require separate cybersecurity environment but would still benefit from centralized management.
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Vipre is clearly a well suited antivirus program both in the professional world as well as in the home environments. Vipre offering the same price per seat to protect the typical personal workstation as well as the robust office server is a major plus.
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Pros
  • In term of pricing
  • In term of Advanced threat protection
  • User friendly solution and good support team.
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  • It is quite effective against all kinds of viruses and provides 360-degree protection.
  • Its scanning action is quite fast and less time taking.
  • It has the ability to scan emails too, from viruses.
  • It is reliable, easy-to-use, and provides excellent protection.
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Cons
  • Confusing Workflow at Renewal
  • Fixed Bundle Sizes may be an issue for Smaller Businesses with in-the-middle requirements
  • Easier Installation
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  • The patch management feature could be updated. It doesn't work all of the time.
  • Some updates cause issues with computers. This has happened a couple of times but I was able to get a hold of someone at VIPRE support and work through it.
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Usability
It's good for a small business that needs cybersecurity without needing to spend a lot of money. Besides being affordable it seems to be extremely, reliable, and easy to use.
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VIPRE is very easy to use and administer. You have a lot of functionality from the server on what you can do with the clients. It has proved useful when I can't access a client any other way. I can reboot the computer from the server and then usually get back into that machine.
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Support Rating
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VIPRE support is usually pretty quick. Sometimes you have to get a lot of information to send back so they can see the issue. This has not been too bad and I understand why it's needed. VIPRE also has a free rescue tool that is very useful and easy to use. There have been others but VIPRE seems to keep theirs updated. It's my go-to even outside of work.
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Alternatives Considered
We did not actively consider any other software. Overall we did do a basic understanding of a pricing & features and found that the offerings from Symantec were better than others even prima facie. At the current time for an organisation such as ours we do not believe that there is any other option worth active consideration
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We use FortiClient on our end-user workstations, for the VPN capabilities, but the antivirus was a little too aggressive for our servers. Vipre solved that problem. We used ESET before FortiClient, but was not pleased with the changes brought on by version 6.0, so we looked else where. Vipre fits our server needs just fine.
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Return on Investment
  • Money saved on cybersecurity products
  • Time saved: ease of use
  • Reliable
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  • We have had zero downtime due to a virus or exploit getting through the Vipre software capabilities.
  • We saved over 3k$ over Symantec and others offers.
  • The alerts that my IT team gets in real time has saved us from many issues as we intervened before users often knew there was the potential for problems, saving us time and money.
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