Product Description

With Trend Micro Internet Security, you no longer need to choose between computer performance and maximum protection. Get smart, proven security that never sleeps, guarding your PC from the latest threats while giving you the freedom to browse and shop online. Safeguard your PC and your personal information without compromise. Smart security features in Trend Micro Internet Security protect the computers in your home as you email and browse online. Enhanced parental controls help you take charge of where and when your children go online. Protection for up to 3 PCs per household.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #855 in Software
• Brand: Trend Micro, Inc.
• Model: TIS096212
• Released on: 2008-09-15
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .15 pounds

Features

• Easy-to-use protection for your home network, identity, and online activities from the present and future web threats
• Home Protection for up to 3 PCs
• Over 40% lighter on memory, nearly 50% faster bootup time
• Customizable security for your home PCs
• Designed to identify and stop attacks before they happen

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With Trend Micro Internet Security, you no longer need to choose between computer performance and maximum protection. Get smart, proven security that never sleeps, guarding your PC from the latest threats while giving you the freedom to browse and shop online. Safeguard your PC and your personal information without compromise.

Enhanced parental controls help you take charge of where and when your children go online. Click to enlarge.

Maximum Security. Online Freedom.

Why worry about malicious downloads and dangerous web pages?

Trend Micro Internet Security provides smart, up-to-date protection for your home network against present and future threats without slowing down your PC. Protection for up to 3 PCs per household.

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

You can block websites with inappropriate content, prevent access at specific times, and even stop children from typing personal information in webpages. Click to enlarge.

Surf the web without worry
Smart security features in Trend Micro Internet Security protect the computers in your home as you email and browse online:

• Prevents email and image spam from reaching your inbox
• Halts access to dangerous web pages
• Stops websites from installing dangerous downloads on your computer

Manage your children's online activity
Enhanced parental controls help you take charge of where and when your children go online:

• Block websites with inappropriate content based on specific categories
• Choose what times and for how long your children are allowed to go online
• Monitor online activity reports to fine-tune your controls if necessary

Essential protection for your home PCs
Trend Micro Internet Security safeguards your computer and personal information against latest threats:

• Detects and removes viruses, spyware, and other malicious threats from your computer, email, instant messages and downloads
• Prevents unauthorized users from changing your critical applications, without impacting your PC's performance
• Secures your home network with a personal firewall and Wi-Fi patrol

Home Network Protection. Online Safety for Families.
Trend Micro Internet Security secures your home network from the latest threats while protecting your family from unsafe and inappropriate web sites.

New and Improved Features:

• New--Worry-Free Click protects you from malicious or untrustworthy links from email, websites, or instant messages.
• Improved--Home Network Map lets you see all the devices connected to your network at a glance, manage the security of other network computers remotely, and block wireless home network intruders from accessing yours.
• Improved--Parental Controls lets you take charge of when and where your children go on the Internet. You can block websites with inappropriate content, prevent access at specific times, and even stop them from typing personal information in webpages.
• Improved--Powerful anti-spyware technology guards your personal information and privacy against spyware, rootkits, and other malicious software.
• Improved--An award-winning anti-virus engine protects against computer viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, and related security threats.

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Customer Reviews

Easy to Install and Use
As an IT professional with years of experience in consumer support I feel it's almost a duty to review security software such as TrendMicro's Internet Security suite. But in order to properly understand my review I need to explain that I have some pretty strict criteria for my evaluation.

1. Ease of use, installation and maintenance: the application suite must be easy for the average user to install maintain, and use. Ideally the product should be out of sight out of mind as much as possible, simply performing its job in the background.
2. Lack of interference in daily use of the PC: the application suite should not slow down a modern PC with reasonable hardware specifications; it should not bother the user with pop-ups about what it is doing nor with minor "threats" such as cookies.
3. Level of threat protection : the user's PC should be protected against network (attacks used by worms), web (attacks used by hackers on the web) and file system attacks (malicious file downloads).
4. Ease of customization when required: if something is blocked that should not be, a reasonably proficient user should not need to seek professional help configuring the application.

ThrendMicro is, in my opinion, one of the best producers of security software available. In "ease of use and maintenance" they score very highly. Any user who is able to install software and actually understand the process will be able to install a consumer product produced by Trend. ***** so five stars for category one.

However they still only score three stars for lack of interference. The software does NOT slow down the PC (Pentium D, with 2GB RAM, not a high end machine) but companies like Trend, Symantec, and McAfee need to understand that if I can manually put the window from a scan to run invisibly in the background, maybe it should just run there anyway. I also don't care that Trend has deleted the cookies from my computer. I don't want to be told about the removal of threats of the most minimal risk level. I have also found several legit sites that were blocked that annoyed me. For example, I tried to watch streaming video from FOX's web site and it was blocked. ***-- for category two.

Five stars, though, for threat protection. If your system is up-to-date, Trend is up-to-date and you do not disable it you will almost certainly not get infected. The problem arises when the user participates in high-risk behaviors like file sharing (bit-torrent, eMule, etc) and then disables the software to access something they shouldn't. This is the surest way to 0wn3d, to use a technical term. *****

I have to give them credit on ease of customization. Unlike Symantec's Endpoint Protection (which was a nightmare for nearly all categories) Trend's products have always had a simple, easy to understand interface. They use intuitive names like "web protection" for their services enabling even unsophisticated users to understand where to click when they need to find something.

4 ½ overall score. Not bad! I highly recommend this software to protect your PC.

Trend Micro.............delivers!
I've read reviews where users have stated that Trend Micro has slowed their computer down etc.......
I think we all need to keep in mind that depending if you've already maxed out your computers RAM & HD........yeah sure, it won't work as well (FAST) as if you have plenty of space for it to do it's job!
I have it installed currently on an older computer & a newer one (both however are using windows XP Home & while th older computer is close to 80% maxed out, it works perfectly, without a hitch, just as it should!
So when evaluating IF this is the protection software that is best for you, please remember to compare "apples to apples"!
IF someone says it is GREAT, or a lemon, find out what type of a computer they installed it on & the operating system, RAM, HD & whether or not it was already topped out!
As for our family, we could not be more pleased, we have had Norton & others in the past & prefer Trend Micro much more, it has all the bells & whistles we need & want!
Hope this helps you decide what will be best for your needs! Good Luck!!

Demo it before you buy!
After 3 installation attempts, following directions carefully regarding uninstalling previous programs, etc., I get the blue screen of death each time. Can't get computer to run long enough to uninstall it so I have had to restore the system settings from safe mode after each attempt. I am disappointed since I have been a Trend Micro user for several years and liked their products but this is unacceptable. Installation proceeded normally, and I even was able to register and activate software before it goes blue. I finally gave up and installed Norton Internet Security as a demo and it worked perfectly. Given the software return policy, I will never buy before I test a security package again. This package may work great for some, but unless you want to spend a lot of time working on problems yourself or with tech support (only available M-F), I would highly recommend doing a demo first BEFORE you buy. I am prepared for a few installation difficulties but this is absurd. I guess I will be a Norton user for the next year at least.