Archive → November 16th, 2009
REVIEW: Sun Belt Software’s Vipre Antivirus
I’m not someone who changes my antivirus program every single year; I prefer to find a solution I like and stick with it until it becomes obvious there’s something better on the market. For the past couple years, Kaspersky has been my preferred solution, but that may be changing next time my license comes due.
When it comes to antivirus software, I’m willing to spend a bit more of a superior technology is in play; that’s why I chose Kaspersky a couple years ago. But it’s the most expensive solution on the market, and I only get one license for it. Sure, it’s the best on the market. But perhaps that’s not the case anymore.
Sun Belt Software has released a new technology called Vipre Antivirus, and for about half the price of Kaspersky, it offers an unlimited home site license – meaning as long as it’s a home computer, I could put it on both my wife’s desktop and laptop, as well as my desktop and laptop, all for one low price. That’s quick attractive. No one else offers that. Sure, a single-user license is still cheaper at $29.99; but for $49.99, to cover all four of my household computers? That’s a huge savings. HUGE!
But more importantly, it uses fewer system resources than anything else out on the market, while offering some new virus-preventing technologies that no one else – not even Kaspersky – has caught up to yet. As long as they offer hourly virus definition updates like Kaspersky, I believe Sun Belt Software’s Vipre Antivirus may become my new solution!
I’ll want to make sure once March rolls around, but I have a feeling it’s time to switch.
REVIEW: Lewis University Online
It’s not always a safe world out there, and trusting everyone until they give you a reason not to is a good character quality, perhaps, but a dangerous approach when protecting your personal and business data. That’s why data security is now so big a concern that sharp online-savvy universities like Lewis University now offers a master’s degree program in information security.
The best thing is that this is definitely a growth area in terms of employment, even in the midst of a down economy. Who wouldn’t want to be in a field where not only are there companies hiring, but there’s a vast shortage of properly-trained professionals? Isn’t that what everyone’s looking for? That’s why Information Security Colleges like Lewis University Online are filling the gap with their degrees in this in-demand field.
Check it out. Unless you’re not among the 10 percent unemployed and can’t imagine a better job than the one you already have, that is…
Early handicap of GOP 2012 Presidential Field: Newt Gingrich
When he’s not perusing Outer Banks vacation rentals, Newt Gingrich is flirting with a GOP presidential run. He has long been a favorite of mine, but he recently fell out of favor with me when he backed an ACORN-loving, liberal Republican in the New York Congressional race, rather than a true conservative, Doug Hoffman. The race was tight and Gingrich’s support might have made a difference.
But in all honestly, Gingrich has been slipping a lot since leaving office as Speaker of the House; he has cozied up to liberals and Democrats to push forward global warming solutions in an effort he calls “green Republicanism” when he ought to be shouting “swindle and fraud” from the rooftops against the cap-and-trade scam that global warming alarmism is a backdrop for.
While Gingrich has had solid conservative credentials in the past, there is now room for a reasonable amount of skepticism as to its authenticity. Too bad.
Early handicap of GOP 2012 Presidential Field: Mike Huckabee
In assessing, early on, the 2012 presidential field for the GOP, in the contest to face off with Barack Obama, the first name I’m going to tackle is a favorite of evangelicals and some party faithful. He’s been raising his profile and money, going as far as to accept credit cards from donors, but nothing’s official yet.
My problems with Huckabee as a banner-carrier, at this point, are manifold. First, if he runs again, he needs to remember he’s running to be commander in chief of the military and CEO of the country, not the national pastor. In 2008, Huckabee wore his religion on his sleeve even more obviously than did George W. Bush for two election cycles; it didn’t even sell to the party’s base.
But there’s a deeper problem with Huckabee, and that is that he’s not a conservative on most issues; he sees big government as simply misdirected by liberals, and would maintain a big government philosophy in office, simply redirecting the power of governmental power, as did GWB.
That’s the wrong direction for the party, which needs to re-embrace its constitution-loving, Reagan roots. Thus far, all Huckabee has proven himself to be is a “more Christian and pro-life” version of John McCain. And that, we don’t need.
