This = bad start to a Thursday morning for one of my customers. I danced a jig to try and cheer her up. Didn’t work :-(
If you ever need to find what server is the Vipre “mothership” for a workstation you’re working on, open the registry and head to HKLM->Software->Sbamsvc->PolicyServiceMachineName. So in my example, this workstation is reporting in to 10.2.0.32.
One of my customer’s, shortly after a Vipre antivirus deployment, found that any time they right-clicked the start menu, they’d get the following error on one of their machines:

A quick chat with the friendly Web chat folks at GFI, and I was on my way:
Ka-powzie! Thanks GFI!