Trend Micro Mobile Security 2022 Review + How to Install and Configure
Trend Micro Mobile Security on Android Devices
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How to setup Trend Micro Mobile Security on Android devices:
#Trend Micro Mobile Security's graphical user interface (GUI)
overview:
#Setting up Trend Micro Premium Plan:
Create a Trend Micro account or simply ignore it.
Note: There is no free version, but
you can try the premium version for eight days for free.
Buy Trend Micro Mobile Security at a discount price.
>>Begin with a scan<<
Trend Micro encourages you to scan your device for any malware
apps.
It scans all vulnerabilities and mobile security weaknesses like
security and privacy.
In the below screenshot, Trend Micro shows 10 things to fix.
If you want all the features, you can setup. But now we can only
concentrate on:
Web Guard
Screen lock
Lost Device Protection
Security Scan Notifications
Mainly, we concentrate on Web Protection and Anti-Theft.
A Security tip for Browsers:
As a result, always use Secure HTTPS
connections and always enable secure
connections in browsers. We showed Google
Chrome below.
By default, it is turned off.
>>Setup Web Protection [Web Guard]<<
Enable Web Guard Protection by allowing draw over other apps and access
permissions to block Anti-Phishing and dangerous websites.
If you want banking protection, enable Pay Guard Mobile Protection.
>Setup Lost Device Protection [Anti-Theft]
Tap on Lost device protection and give necessary permissions to use
Anti-Theft features.
The following permissions will be granted: location access, screen
overlay, device administrator, camera, storage, and apps with usage
access.
Activate the device admin and give some more permissions.
Enable Find My Android and uninstall protection if you need it.
Enable secret Snap, which takes photos if anyone tries to unlock your
apps and uninstall them.
Finally, set up security scan notifications by giving read app
notifications permission.
Trend Micro Mobile Security 2022 Review:
#Trend Micro Mobile Security Protection Overview:
- Trend Micro Mobile Security has real-time scanning and antivirus protection.
- Trend Micro Mobile Security scans for any risks and privacy issues from the apps.
- There are also automatic scans for every update.
- AV-TEST announced Trend Micro Mobile Security Protection results for the year 2021 as 100%
#Trend Micro Mobile Security Web Protection [Anti-Phishing]
Overview:
- Trend Micro Provides Safe Browsing (Anti-Phishing & Anti Malware) protection.
- Trend Micro Mobile Security provides Safe Browsing for Google Chrome and Samsung Browser.
- Trend Micro Mobile Security offers Safe Browsing for renaming browsers only if VPN [Wire Guard] is enabled.
- AV-TEST announced Trend Micro Mobile Security web Protection results for the year 2021 as 99% above.
Trend Micro Mobile Security Anti-Theft Feature:
- Create a Trend Micro account to monitor your lost device and lock or erase all of your data on a lost device.
- It is a feature that allows you to locate the exact location of your lost device and can monitor unlock attempts.
- If someone tries to unlock your locked apps or tries to uninstall Trend Micro, then it will take selfie camera pictures of that person.
Trend Micro Mobile Security Extra Features:
- Fraud Buster [Monitor scam messages]
- App Lock: Protect your privacy by locking your apps.
- Parental controls
- WiFi checker
- Payment Protection
PROS:
- Safe Browsing [Anti-Phishing] Protection is one of the best web protection tools available.
- Anti-Phishing Protection blocks untrusty HTTP and HTTPS pop-up connections and risky websites.
- It has the best anti-theft features, including a camera snap and locking the device when the SIM is removed.
- If you are a user who mistakenly or unexpectedly visits websites and clicks on any content that has unwanted scam pop-ups or script-based pop-ups, [Trend Micro eliminates 80% of them]
- It has parental control features.
CONS:
- There is no free version; only an 8-day free premium plan is available.
- It only supports Web protection for Chrome and Samsung browsers and the remaining browsers are only supported if VPN [Wire Guard] is enabled.
- VPN-supported apps should have supported third-party VPNs also. Web protection works only when we enable the built-in wire guard, but not for other VPNs.
- No Privacy Advisor [which shows you what apps have what permissions of access]