Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 3.0

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Product Features

• Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 provides the most comprehensive, easy-to-use protection for your personal data so you can shop, bank, or browse with confidence
• An award-winning anti-virus engine protects against computer viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, and related security threats
• Enhanced parental controls help you to protect your children from inappropriate content when they go online
• Remotely secures confidential files and folders in case your computer is lost or stolen
• Enhance performance and privacy by recovering disk space, cleaning up your registry and startup settings, removing cookies, and clearing your browser history

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002EAYJEM
• Item model number: TISP106939
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 19, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #85 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro provides the most comprehensive, easy-to-use protection for your personal data so you can shop, bank, or browse with confidence.

The most comprehensive, easy-to-use protection for your personal data so you can shop, bank, or browse with confidence. Click to enlarge.

Easy-to-use, comprehensive protection

Shop, bank, and invest online with peace of mind
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro safeguards your personal information from hackers and cybercriminals whether you are at home or away:

• Remotely secure confidential files and folders in case your computer is lost or stolen
• Automatically check the legitimacy of Wi-Fi "hot spots" when using your laptop on the road
• Prevents data thieves, viruses, SMS text message spam and other malware from invading your smartphone
• Remotely erases data from your smartphone if it's stolen
• Inspects web page content in real-time--so you're protected even if you're the first visitor to a new unsafe website
• Back up as much as 2GB of your critical data to a secure online site

Smart features tailored to your activities
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro not only defends your computer from the latest spyware, viruses, and phishing scams, and goes one step further:

• Keep your protection current with automatic updates
• Prevent unauthorized users from changing your critical applications, without impacting your PC's performance
• Pause security updates or scans when you give presentations, watch movies, or play games
• Automatically prevent suspicious software on USB devices from opening
• Helps you to easily manage all the devices connected to your home network
• Easily customizable parental controls to protect your children against inappropriate content
• Get a complete and customizable snapshot of security activities on your computer

Enhance performance and privacy by recovering disk space, cleaning up your registry and startup settings, removing cookies, and clearing your browser history. Click to enlarge.

Take charge of when and where your children go on the Internet. Block websites with inappropriate content, prevent access at specific times, and even stop kids from entering personal information onto webpages. Click to enlarge.

Improved security policies find and stop unwanted attempts to change your operating system and critical software. Click to enlarge.

Get a comprehensive and customizable snapshot of all the security activities on your computer through easy-to-use charts and graphs. Click to enlarge.

Lock confidential files and folders inside a secure vault on your hard drive in case your computer is lost or stolen. Click to enlarge.

Optimized PC Performance
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro includes powerful, easy-to-use tools to keep your computer running smoothly:

• 20% smaller file size, 20% faster scan time
• Clean up registry and temp files and manage startup programs to boost PC performance

Surf the web with confidence

• Detects and removes viruses, spyware, and other malicious threats from your computer, email, instant messages and downloads
• Proven leadership in anti-spam technology, including email and image spam
• Finds and blocks untrustworthy links in email and instant messages
• Stops websites from installing dangerous downloads on your computer
• Quick Scan allows you to quickly find and remove most malware when you are running short on time.

Maximum Security. Online Freedom.
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro. Enjoy your online activities with complete confidence.

Key Features of Trend Micro Internet Security Pro

Get Essential Protection

Protects against current and future viruses
An award-winning anti-virus engine protects against computer viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, and related security threats. Automatic updates immunize you against new computer virus outbreaks for the full duration of your subscription.

Defends your personal information with anti-spyware technology
Powerful anti-spyware technology guards your personal information and privacy against spyware, rootkits, and other malicious software.

Blocks direct online attacks with a personal firewall
Prevent your computer from exchanging data without your approval and defend against attacks from the Internet.

Prevents unauthorized changes
Improved security policies find and stop unwanted attempts to change your operating system and critical software.

Offers customizable security warnings
Decide how often you want to receive warnings about security threats.

Safeguards multiple computers
Install Trend Micro Internet Security Pro on up to three PCs per household.

Surf the Web Safely

Protects against web threats
Steer clear of online phishing scams that try to steal your credit card or bank account numbers. Continuous updates identify the newest risky websites.

Secure Web surfing
Block malicious or untrustworthy hyperlinks in email, websites, or instant messages.

Blocks image spam
Stop seeing spam that tries to evade filters by delivering images instead of just text.

First Visitor Protection
Immediately check web pages for security risks to stay protected even if you're the first visitor to a new unsafe website

Wi-Fi Advisor
Keep your Internet access secure even when away from home. Recognize untrustworthy wireless networks by checking their digital signatures.

Device Access Control
Automatically prevent suspicious software on USB devices from opening.

Smart Features for Your Online Activities

Home Network Map
See the computers and other devices connected to your network at a glance, manage the security of other computers remotely, and block wireless home network intruders from accessing yours.

Security Activity Dashboard
Get a comprehensive and customizable snapshot of all the security activities on your computer through easy-to-use charts and graphs.

State Aware
Work on your presentations, watch movies, or play games without security updates or scans getting in the way.

Protect Your Children Online

Enhanced Parental Controls
Take charge of when and where your children go on the Internet. Block websites with inappropriate content, prevent access at specific times, and even stop kids from entering personal information onto webpages.

Protect Your Personal Information

Trend Micro Vault
Lock confidential files and folders inside a secure vault on your hard drive in case your computer is lost or stolen

Online Backup
Back up as much as 2GB of your critical information to a secure online site

Maximize Your PC Performance

System Tuner
Enhance performance and privacy by recovering disk space, cleaning up your registry and startup settings, removing cookies, and clearing your browser history.

Extend the Protection to Smartphones

Smartphone Protection
Extend protection against malicious attacks to your smartphone when you email or browse websites. Remotely erase your information from your smartphone if it's stolen.

Product Description

Why take chances with your personal and credit card information? Trend Micro Internet Security Pro provides the most comprehensive protection available for your personal and financial information, whether you're at home or on the road. Prevents data thieves, viruses, SMS text message spam and other malware from invading your smartphone First Visitor Protection - Inspects webpage content in real-time, so you're protected even if you're the first visitor to a new unsafe website Keeps your protection current with automatic updates Clean up registry and temp files and manage startup programs to boost PC performance Get a complete and customizable snapshot of security activities on your computer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trend Micro's Internet Security Pro 3.0 delivers in speed and quickness!, October 29, 2009

By	Dennis A. Amith (kndy) (California) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

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Having tested a good number of security software, I wanted to give Trend Micro's Internet Security Pro Version 3.0 a chance. With McAfee's Security program on one laptop, I wanted to see how Trend Micro's latest software compares on my other PC laptop.

I. INSTALLATION

When I install anti-virus or security programs, things usually take about 20-25 minutes but surprisingly Trend Micro's Internet Security Pro 3.0 took less than 10 minutes (and this on a laptop that is 90% full). Trend Micro advertises that the software is 20% smaller in file size and 20% faster in scan time and so far, that has remained to be true. Installation was easy, but it does require you to have an internet connection ready and also to enter your personal information before accessing the software (after installation). But this is probably the quickest Internet Security software I have ran thus far.

II. Interface

After installation, accessing the software is easy and quick. Updating the software is all within a click of a button. You get an overview, virus and spy ware controls, personal firewall controls, internet and e-mail controls, other settings and subscription and pro features. Interface is pretty basic and for newbies, it should be easy to navigate. When checking each section, there is a button that shows on or off. So, you know what is working immediately.

Where most of the sections are self-explanatory, the Pro Features is quite interesting as it allows you to go further into Internet Security with:

- Trend Micro Vault - Password-protected vault folder where you store sensitive files that seals if you lose your computer. I definitely like this feature, especially the fact that you can report your computer as missing/stolen and the vault where sensitive files are stored will automatically seal.

- System Tuner - Improve the performance of your computer, recover hard disk space/cleans up registry files and safeguard privacy on the Internet. Personally, I didn't want to mess with the registry using this function until I did a back of files.

- Trend Micro Toolbar that checks the safety of the websites, hyperlinks and wireless networks - I tested this and where McAfee's test of sites would take you to their webpage with user-based reviews, Trend Micro's toolbar gives you a color code if it's safe.

- Protection for mobile telephones and PDA's from span and viruses. Another good feature for those who want to protect their smart phones and PDA's.

III. Overview

The virus scan was definitely quicker than any anti-virus software that I have used before and that is definitely a positive. The software does what it says on the back of the box, protecting the PC from viruses and spyware, prevents unauthorized changes, blocks e-mail and image spam, malicious downloads and also via "My Home Network", you can see who is utilizing your computer.

At first I was wondering why they separated the pro features but after checking them out, it's something that you don't want newbies messing with especially if it deals with registry and a automatic sealing vaults. So, it makes sense to keep the pro feature as something you need to self-install and limits the user-errors.

So, which is better? McAfee or Trend Micro? Personally, I think that they are even but with McAfee, they have a better looking graphical interface, they've been around longer and the online checker has more integration with their website. But Trend Micro is quicker, faster and is quite simple for the beginning computer user. Quite simply both offer similar protection.


Similar to McAfee's Internet Security 2010, Trend Micro's Internet Security Pro 3.0 offers a 3-user license and a one year license agreement. Also, 2GB of online storage and ability to back up critical data to a secure online site.

Overall, Trend Micro's Internet Security Pro 3.0 is a solid release. Both are solid brands known for their security service. McAfee is known for anti-virus, Trend Micro for anti-spam. So, really it all comes down to which brand you prefer and price. But one thing that Trend Micro's Internet Security software does have an edge versus its competitors is speed. Install, scanning and registry/system cleanup is very quick. So, if speed is a factor in your decision-making, Trend Micro is the way to go!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another good Internet security offering, November 3, 2009

By	ut158 (USA) - See all my reviews

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I installed this on a Windows 7 computer (Win 7 beta, Virtual PC installation running on a Windows XP host). The installation took a little over 13 min. from the time I stuck the disc in to the time the installed UI came up (although I could have shaved a minute or so off if I hadn't read through the EULA and if I had used the "regular installation" instead of the advanced/custom install--I wound up using all the defaults, anyway).

The initial update took another 8 minutes to download and install (the file was 35 MB and my DL took under a minute--most of the 8 min. was installation time). One quirk was that when the update completed, the windows just closed--they didn't give any other indication that they were done or what the success status was.

I ran a quick scan after the update was done and it took a mere 45 seconds and found 2 "potential threats" (cookies). I next tried a full scan and that completed in 43 seconds and found another 2 problems--I needed to install 2 Windows updates. That has to be the fastest complete scan I've ever done... it makes me a little suspicious... it really couldn't have looked at everything in that amount of time, right? I mean, my drive has 8.5 GB of files to search through. Assuming we look at the vast majority of the available files (since it is a FULL scan, after all), you would have to sustain nearly 200 MB/s from the hard drive. Even with my RAID (4 disk, 0+1) array, that's pushing it.

The suite sports a full set of features including a fully customizable firewall, parental controls, and a spam filter as well as 2 GB of online storage (2x the normal) and a nice "vault" feature which you can supposedly lock remotely if your computer gets stolen. I haven't played with that feature yet, but as far as I'm aware, it is a unique offering. I thought the parental controls were pretty good, but not as good as BitLocker's.

Things I was concerned about, but I suspect have only to do with my VM setup and so may not have any bearing:
1) Upon starting the installation, I got the following pop up:
This computer's clock speed falls below the minimum recommended for Trend Micro Internet Security Pro. Installing the software will slow down this computer. Do you still want to continue?
I'm running a Core2 Quad Q6600 over-clocked to 2.7 GHz. I know the VM only sees one of those cores and I'm not sure what clock speed it is seeing, so this is probably a non-issue. The box says that Win7 needs 1 GHz (800 MHz minimum), so let that be a guide for you.
2) After installing, my computer kept crashing, but I suspect that has to do with the fact that I'm using a beta OS. This is far to obvious to be an issue on released OSs. On the plus side, I found out that the virus scanner has a special "safe mode" scanning function you can use. I thought that was pretty cool.

Bottom line: a solid offering from Trend Micro. Scans are very fast (if not too fast), the install was easy and there are plenty of bells and whistles to keep advanced users happy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good comprehensive protection, October 29, 2009

By	L A. (NY USA) - See all my reviews

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I have used Kaspersky anti-virus software for the last few years after using and being disatisfied with McAfee. I thought I would try Trend Micro Internet security for the first time. The setup was fairly easy and similar to the method Kaspersky uses. The software is comprehensive with virus and spyware protection, a firewall, internet and email protection. However, this software includes protection for mobile devices which my copy of Kaspersky anti-virus does not. Then again, Trend Micro Internet security is more expensive than Kaspersky anti-virus, so if you don't have a mobile device to protect, a less comprehensive software suite may be for you. Overall, this is a very good product and is recommended.