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More…Trend Micro's AntiVirus plus Anti-Spyware 2007 came in dead last in our "Virus Stoppers" antivirus roundup test of eight products. Its disappointing finish was primarily due to its lackluster performance at detecting malware samples: The program missed almost one in five samples, for a poor catch rate of 82 percent.
Trend Micro Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2007
| Renewal cost, per year | $40 (3/31/07) |
| Ease of use | Very Good |
| Malware detection rate: Malware detection tests used AV-Test.org's collection of 884,164 malware samples. | 82% |
| File viruses | 91% |
| Macro viruses | 100% |
| Script viruses | 97% |
| Polymorphic viruses | 99% |
| ActiveX controls | 100% |
| Back doors | 81% |
| Bots/zombies | 91% |
| Trojan horses | 74% |
| Adware | 90% |
| Dialers | 56% |
| Number of false positives (out of 20,000 harmless files) | 0 |
| Heuristic detection (one-month-old signatures) | 43% |
| Heuristic detection (two-month-old signatures) | 38% |
| Detection rate of malware within archived files | 32% |
| Detection rate of existing infections (10 infections) | 90% |
| Disinfection rate (files, Hosts changes, Registry items) | 77% |
| Average time (in hours) to deliver signatures for new malware | 6 to 8 |
| Right-click manual scans in Windows Explorer? | No |
| E-mail protocols scanned | POP3 |
| Scan Web traffic? | No |
| Scan speed with standard settings, in seconds | 50 |
| With Firefox 2 | 18% |
| With Adobe Photoshop CS2 | 5% |
| With Microsoft Office 2003 | 9% |
| Daily support hours | 15 |
| Saturday support hours | 0 |
| Sunday support hours | 0 |
| Free phone support | Yes |
| Toll-free phone number | Yes |
| Cost of phone support | 0 |
| Live chat support? | Yes |
| E-mail support? | Yes |
Pros
Low false positive rate
Cons
Poor virus detection
High renewal cost
Trend Micro AntiVirus plus Anti-Spyware 2007
Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2007 Review, by Ryan Naraine April 23, 2007
Trend Micro did somewhat better at proactively detecting unknown malware using one-month-old signature files, but even here, its 43 percent detection rate was the third-worst showing. Coupled with a relatively expensive $40 price tag and no renewal discount, Trend Micro's performance leaves much to be desired.
On the plus side, the program installed smoothly, was easy to use, and includes good default settings for the average person, such as an automatically scheduled full-system scan. The software provides a user-configurable scheduled scan and checks for definition updates every 3 hours. These defaults are a snap to change via an intuitive and smooth interface that will appeal to even the most nontechnical user.
One particularly useful feature scans for known Microsoft product vulnerabilities. If a machine is missing an important security patch, for example, the application guides the user to Microsoft's Windows Update site to download and apply the appropriate updates and patches.
Trend Micro's AntiVirus scans e-mail traffic over the POP3 and SMTP protocols, but unlike almost every other program we tested (except for Grisoft AVG 7.5 Anti-Virus Professional Edition), it does not scan HTML traffic. Also, Trend Micro's product stands alone in being unable to launch a manual file scan through a right-click within Windows Explorer, a weakness that the company says it will remedy in future updates. And the application's antispyware protection has an annoying habit of labeling tracking cookies as dangerous spyware.
We tested the Vista version of TrendMicro AntiVirus plus Anti-Spyware 2007 for our "Virus Stoppers" roundup. An XP version of the software is also available.
Ryan Naraine
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Reviewed by: WayneW
Duration of ownership: 1 Year
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: Total Junk
Overall: I purchased the suite last year w/ a new Dell. Trend Micro Security 12 The firewall was " grayed" out, so it was unclickable. Therefore useless. No help from dell or trend micro. Just wasted $70. If you're smart, read and don't deal w/ dell or trend micro. They are both junk.
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Reviewed by: airforce90
Duration of ownership: 2 Years
Strengths: Not a resource hog. Easy to use and set up for the average user instead of a "geek". The "0" false-positive rate during the PC World test should speak for itself compared to others!
Weaknesses: None.
Overall: I definitely never had a "high renewal cost" nor does it have "poor virus detection" like Norton did when I used it and which was why I dropped Norton like a hot rock! Convesely, Panda (and Norton) had too many "false-positives". If you keep yourself off of crummy websites and quit downloading questionable crap you won't have much of a problem anyway!
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