VIPRE uses icons in your system tray with different colors signifying the following:

	Green indicates that an active scan is running.
	Red indicates that the service is not running and that an error occurred.
	Gray indicates that the firewall and/or Advanced Active Protection are disabled.
	Blue indicates that VIPRE is idle and that Advanced Active Protection and Email AV Protection (only VIPRE Advanced Security) are both enabled, actively protecting your computer.
	Yellow is the Warning icon alerting you to events, such as the completion of a scan, an update is ready to be installed, or errors. Double-click to open the newest item in the System history.

You can hover over the icons to display text showing the status of VIPRE. VIPRE will also display messages notifying you of the status of scans and definition updates, as well as the most recent Definitions version and when it was downloaded.

You can also right-click on the primary icon to open/shutdown VIPRE, check for updates, enable/disable Advanced Active Protection, and run/abort/pause/resume a scan.