VIPRE Antivirus is high-performance antivirus software that doesn’t slow down your PC like older, traditional security products. It is a completely new breed of product that fully integrates antivirus, antispyware and with the introduction of VIPRE Premium, breakthrough firewall protection. It does not bloat.VIPRE Antivirus Premium version you get a 2-way desktop firewall, and additional, more advanced intrusion protection. This feature can be enabled and more proactively used when you use Firewall with learning mode.
Resets to the VIPRE Firewall “Learning Mode” default settings. Learning mode will prompt you whenever there is an attempt made for a network connection. It is more secure than the so called default protection and it is recommended. If you are running the firewall in simple mode then followings are the procedure to change it to Learning mode.
In simple mode if HIPS enabled then default action will be “allow” but in Learning mode HIPS default action will be “allow with notify” so more security.File menu, select Settings. Click the Firewall tab, click Reset to Defaults.Reset Firewall Defaults dialog box displays. Reset to Learning Mode: Resets to the VIPRE Firewall “Learning Mode” default settings.
Learning mode will prompt you whenever there is an attempt made for a network connection. What follows is an optional step.if you suspect that one of the user-defined rules you created is causing problems and don’t know which one to fix. Then select Delete all user defined firewall rules .Click OK on the Reset Firewall Defaults dialog box. Click OK on the Firewall Settings screen.then the resetting to learning mode in firewall of Vipre Antivirus Suit done.
Please remember Learning Mode,will frequently prompt you to essentially teach the VIPRE Firewall how to act. You will be prompted to take action on activity by applications and for certain Operating System actions. Your actions to the prompts can be remembered and applied to this activity in the future, by creating or modifying a rule.