In certain circumstances, you may find the need to disable Vipre Antivirus protection. To temporarily disable your protection:
- In the lower right-hand corner of your desktop in the system tray, right-click on the VIPRE icon and choose Shutdown VIPRE from the menu.
If this option is not available, you can manually shut the service down:
- At the same time, press the Windows key (next to the ALT key) and the R key on your keyboard to bring up the Run window.
- Type services.msc and hit Enter.
- Locate VIPRE Antivirus or VIPRE Internet Security on the list, right click on it, and choose Stop.
To re-enable Vipre protection, click the Start button, open the GFI Software folder, and click VIPRE.
Article ID: 341, Created: 1/17/2013 at 10:30 AM, Modified: 8/8/2014 at 4:43 PM