Trend Micro 2022 Antivirus Review
Brief Intro of Trend Micro:
Trend Micro was founded in 1988. It is an American-Japanese cyber security
software company that mainly focuses on enterprise security. Trend Micro
began acquiring companies in 2005, including anti-spyware, IP filtering
software for phishing scams, sensitive data prevention, email encryption,
firewalls, cloud data storage, SSL providers, and many others.
This is even though Trend Micro has a partnership with Interpol to analyze
cyber-crime. Trend Micro is now focusing more on cloud-based apps such as
Office 365, Google Drive, Dropbox, and other services to detect advanced
threats. They have so many partnerships with telecom, IT, and cloud-based
companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend_Micro
Trend Micro offers security software for both the home [antivirus with
network security] and the business [end point security solutions].
https://www.trendmicro.com/
Now we only concentrate on home users.
Now we are testing top-end home network security software like Trend Micro
Maximum:
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First: Installation
- The installation takes about 3–4 minutes.
Second: Setup
or Configuration of Trend Micro
- There is no need to set up or configure the software in the same way that we did with the Mobile Security Software.We just install and forget.
- We just need to add a browser extension [Trend Micro Toolbar].
- If you want to configure some extra privacy features like social networking protection and data theft prevention, you can do so in the privacy section.
- Lastly, if you want parental controls configured in the family section,
Third: GUI
[Graphical User Interface]
- It's easy to use and configure if needed.
Fourth: Scan
[Quick, Full]
- A quick scan takes about 2 minutes in battery mode and 2 minutes and 16 seconds when plugged in.
- A full scan takes about 25 minutes in battery mode and 23 minutes when plugged in.
Fifth:
Performance
- Trend Micro's RAM and CPU usage
CPU= 1-10%
Trend Micro Antivirus RAM and CPU Usage in Windows 10
- Quick Scan and Full Scan Effect on the System
A Quick Scan has little effect, but better yet, run a full scan while the computer is idle because it consumes more CPU and RAM resources. It can impact your system's performance.
- Impact on Apps, Windows, and Browsing
There is no impact on apps. I have not faced any issues with Windows.
Sometimes there is an impact while browsing and may affect the loading of
websites.
Sixth:
Antivirus Protection
- Trend Micro Antivirus has a real-time cloud-based security engine.
- It scans malware for suspicious files and protects from ransomware.
- AV-TEST announced Trend Micro Antivirus Protection results for the year 2021 as 99.2%.
- AV-COMPARATIVES announced Trend Micro Antivirus Protection results for the year 2021 as 100%
Seventh: Web
Protection [Anti-Phishing and Anti-Malware]
- It has powerful web protection against dangerous websites, phishing scams and protects browsers from running malicious scripts on infected websites.
- You can set the protection level from normal to high for aggressive blocking of fraud and malicious software provider websites.
- Trend Micro has a browser add-on extension [called Trend Micro Toolbar] for the greater blocking of malware websites.
- AV-TEST announced Trend Micro Antivirus web Protection results for the year 2021 as 99% above.
Eighth: Extra
Features
- Examine your computer's health
- Social Networking Protection
- Data theft prevention
- Secure Erase
- Password Manager
- Vault [Password-Protected Windows Folder]
Last:
Uninstallation
The uninstall of Trend Micro takes about 7-9 minutes.
PROS:
- Best Antivirus Protection
- Best Anti-Phishing and Anti-Malware Web Protection.
- Anti-Phishing Protection prevents untrustworthy HTTP and HTTPS pop-up connections to fraudulent and risky websites.
- It blocks more fraud and malicious software. [If you set the level of protection too high],
- Web Protection [blocks 98% of malware threats, phishing websites, and websites with injected malicious scripts].
- It blocks about 80% of unwanted websites, adware, malicious ads, and scam pop-ups from running in the background when we accidentally click on any green button, like trick buttons, or in any space around infected websites.
- It blocks about 90% of fake websites.
NOTE: We are providing a website
that provides some links to databases of fraud websites. Try testing your
antivirus software.
CONS:
- While browsing, sometimes the browser may hang and the loading of websites will be affected.
- Full Scan may consume up to 85% of the CPU, so run it when the computer is idle (not in use).
- No Application control.
- They should improve and make some design changes to the Trend Micro toolbar add-on for browsers. [Example: see below]
NOTE: Every antivirus has some issues. If you want to submit any issues or see what other users are facing, visit their forum/community.
https://en.community.trendmicro.com/