Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3.0 [Old Version]

by Trend Micro, Inc.

Product Features

• Comprehensive spyware detection and removal solution designed for home users
• Thorough cleaning technology helps ensure proper removal of unwanted spyware
• Scans PC for known spyware threats against regularly updated database
• CWShredder tool removes many variants of CoolWebSearch browser hijack
• Automatic frequent updates; restore utility for quick restoration if needed

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B6JAQI
• Item model number: TMA4591
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 25, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,177 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #4 in Software > Business & Office > Communication > E-mail > Security & Filtering
  • #12 in Software > Computer Security > Anti-Spyware
  • #50 in Software > Networking > Security

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Trend Micro Anti-Spyware is a comprehensive spyware detection and removal solution, designed especially for home users. Built on technology that has shipped on more new PCs from major computer manufacturers than any other anti-spyware product available, it features solid detection capabilities to help identify and halt attacks before they can cause unrecoverable damage. Unlike other spyware products, Trend Micro Anti-Spyware features thorough cleaning technology to help ensure proper removal of unwanted spyware remnants.

Features:

Spyware Detection and Removal
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware quickly scans your PC for known spyware threats against a regularly updated database of potential threats. Should spyware be discovered, easy-to-follow tools help to remove the spyware safely and without interruption to Internet connection.

Real-Time Active Defense Protection
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware’s unique Active Defense monitors your PC for spyware-like tactics, alerting you when spyware is found running in memory or is attempting to install itself. If spyware is discovered, Trend Micro Anti-Spyware gives you the option of allowing or denying access to the suspect program.

One-Click Privacy Cleanup
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware can also help protect your privacy by erasing browser and PC history, temporary Internet files, cookies, and other "trackware" files. Trend Micro Anti-Spyware can schedule both history cleanings and supports on-demand cleanings.

Trend Micro CWShredder
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware exclusively includes CWShredder, widely regarded as the only effective tool to remove the many variants of the CoolWebSearch browser hijack.

Restore Utility
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware protects your PC while removing spyware. Unlike other spyware removal programs, Trend Micro Anti-Spyware creates a backup of the files it removes, allowing for quick restoration if a useful or authorized program has inadvertently been removed.

Automatic Frequent Updates
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware is updated on a regular and frequent basis to keep you protected against the latest privacy threats. Backed by TrendLabsSMour Threat Research team uses a variety of spyware collection techniques to ensure immediate protection.

Product Description

Trend Micro Anti-Spyware is a comprehensive spyware detection and removal solution, designed especially for home users. Built on technology that has shipped on more new PCs from major computer manufacturers than any other anti-spyware product available, it features solid detection capabilities to help identify and halt attacks before they can cause unrecoverable damage. Unlike other spyware products, Trend Micro Anti-Spyware features thorough cleaning technology to help ensure proper removal of unwanted spyware remnants.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best out there, April 30, 2006

By 

Two Cool (North Carolina, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Nothing tops it, it is simply the best out there. This thing even has a blacklist and whitelist so you can allow what type of threats you want coming through your computer, and what threats you don't. It does a very thorough scan and by far the best I have seen yet. The only con I would give it is that It does not have password protection, they should have known better than that, but besides that I see nothing wrong with this program. Even has a built in CW Shredder and can clear all your browsing history and temp folder. It's amazing, you've gotta get it, my definitions are updated about every other day.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Trend Micro Anti-Spyware V 3.12 a good application - but who is spying on whom?, January 15, 2006

By 

zczc2311 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have tested Trend Micro Anti-spyware for both Desktop and SMB -There is a great deal of good things about this software and there are those that detract from this offering.

The software performs well - especially their Spy-sleuth and Venus Spy Trap which will give you early warning and precise information to changes to your registry or the addition of BHO.

The downside of this software is its never ending quest to update itself. Without either software or hardware constraint the application will check with its parent for updates every 5 minutes 24/7 and it will go through every Port of you PC to try to contact home.

It remains unclear if the application is trying to update itself or spy on your usage.
The following is an example of a constrained Trend Micro AntiSpyware Application being denied access by software Firewalls and the resultant Log entries.

It is not possible to turn off this feature, by any means. I have challenged Trends Micro on the subject, however they remain silent.

If you want to increase you network traffic substantially - don't bother to constrain the application and take the risk of what data this application IS really sending.

Not recommended for sites of more than 5 PC's unless you constrain the Product's access to the Internet - With each PC sending this amount of Traffic every 5 minutes this is valuable Traffic which you need now be robbed from your network.

Conclusion:

This is a good application in detection in real time and in scanning and the CW shredder does its job well - although you still might need the help of a shareware tool such as "CCleaner" to really shred out the nastiness.


Type Time Protocol Source IP Address Source Port Destination IP Address Destination Port Application Path Application Description
Exception List Rule 0:01:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2874 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:06:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2875 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:11:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2876 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:16:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2877 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:21:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2878 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:26:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2883 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:31:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2885 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:36:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2886 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:41:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2887 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:46:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2888 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:51:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2889 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 0:56:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2890 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:01:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2891 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:06:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2892 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:11:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2893 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:16:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2894 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:21:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2895 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:26:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2896 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:31:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2897 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:36:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2898 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:41:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2899 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:46:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2900 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:51:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2901 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 1:56:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2902 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 2:01:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2903 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 2:06:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2904 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 2:11:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2905 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 2:16:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2906 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 2:21:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2907 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 5:51:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2910 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 5:56:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2911 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 6:01:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2912 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 6:06:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2913 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 6:11:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2914 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 6:16:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2915 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 6:21:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2916 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module
Exception List Rule 6:26:21 TCP 03LM1D9Z4CCF-S 2917 66.35.253.100 80 C:\PROGRAM FILES\TREND MICRO\TMAS\TMAS.EXE Anti-Spyware Main Module

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Spyware Upgrade, December 19, 2006

By 

Michael Kerner "Michael Kerner" (Brooklyn, New York U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Many people have previously owned Spysubtract from Intermute. Although it was one of the best anti-spyware softwares ever made, many of those owners are set to have a complete overlook to a new version of the spyware software. For those who did own Spysubtract before, you'd have to upgrade to Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3.0. This software runs exactly like what Spysubtract did, and it delivers much better at detecting spyware, adware and a much more detailed glimpse at the cookies that target and sneak into your life and computer. This is one anti-spyware software I really recommend, it is worth the price.

Price: B+

Convience: B

Performance: B 1/2+

Overall: B 1/2+