- 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
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.Amazon.com
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.
I allocated the stars on this product on the hope that it will prove itself. I entered this three days ago and so far it works well. I may write a new review in a few months after it has a chance to prove itself.
Rating: 3 / 5
I guess unless I have a problem, it’s doing it’s job. Easy to install, no measured difference in PC performance, it seems fine. I guess this is more of a time-will-tell thing. I will update if there are any significant developments either way.
Rating: 3 / 5
I like this product for one major reason: I have used it on one of my older computers and it came preinstalled. I have found over the years if something is preinstalled on a computer it is a good idea to use that product when it is a a Microsoft operating system. This is my spouses’ computer and he has very little computer knowledge or care to learn. Trend Micro is secure and does the job. I was very happy to use this on that one computer. Now after he uses the computer with this on it I’ll update you on how he likes it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this program recently to block certain websites that I did not want other people seeing on my computer. The parental controls are amazing and I love it works 24/7! Its always doing its job and I would totally recommend this program to anyone who wants a high security/anti-virus program. It was worth every penny.
Rating: 5 / 5
In the past I was a Trend customer and I was content with their 2006 version of their internet security solution. Their 2007 version was a true lemon so I moved on, but I am always willing to given a company another try after a season. I gave Trend their second chance on this product, and it was a mostly negative experience.
My target system is a dual-core Intel 2.1G laptop with 3GB RAM and a lot of hard drive space, running Windows Vista Home Premium.
Installation was smooth, with the prerequisite reboot at the end due to the mandatory deinstallation of Spybot Search and Destroy. Some AV products force an uninstall of antispyware applications during the install process, so this was not a total shock.
The new interface is smooth and sleek and has tremendous eye appeal. I like the way it is laid out – everything is set up through logical groupings and within the groupings the settings are very accessible. Changing most settings should be a fairly straightforward and easy.
Now, that said, I ran into some major resistance when trying to modify some of the settings. At one point I decided to make some adjustments to parental controls (more on that specific feature in a moment). When I chose to Appy/Accept my changes, the interface hung up and would not allow the changes. It did accept a Cancel button click, but when I went back to try again I got a “Webpage not available” window pop up. Well, I think it was a window – there was no frame, no controls, nothing, just a standard IE message that you get when a web page is missing, and it popped up over most of the application as if it was supposed to be in a dialog box. Fortunately I was able to press Esc and it went away, but if I tried again it came right back.
The GUI got itself so confused at one point that I was unable to get it to do anything at all, including shutting down. I finally had to reboot the computer and that finally made the application go away. There should never be an occasion when a security application simply dies like that.
Now, back to parental controls – they simply did not work in my case. I selected a reasonable set of categories to block and I headed out to the web to a site that should have been blocked and it was not. I tried a couple more and got through every time. The was true with both Firefox and IE. One of the features I look for in a security suite is parental controls, and this suite’s attempt was a waste of time.
Ok, let’s look at the antivirus and see how it goes… Trend’s antivirus has always been a top-notch scanner so I was eager to have something – anything – go right. I initiated a full scan of the system and the scanner went to work. I was disappointed though in that it gave me a summary of what it was doing but gave me no option to look at specifics. That’s a minor thing. Much more important was that the scanner’s dialog box had buttons for Pause and Cancel, and BOTH of them were grayed out. Great… I clicked repeatedly on the grayed out Cancel button and it finally went black and allowed me to interrupt it. There is no reason this should ever happen and is the result of sloppy coding in the lab.
A final insult – Windows recognized that Trend was the firewall that was in place, but it reported that there was no Antivirus installed at all. Every other security suite properly registered its components with Windows Security Center, but Trend’s suite does not.
At this point I abandoned Trend Internet Security and uninstalled it, which was fortunately very straightforward and easy. I never got around to testing the firewall, because I was so disgusted with everything else that the suite had (or hadn’t) done.
I cannot in good conscience recommend Trend Internet Security 2009, based on my own experiences with it. It has the feel of being pre-beta software that is still under active development and was rushed to market. It shows some promise on the surface and boasts a handsome interface and generous feature set, it just does not work very well at all. It is my hope that others have had more pleasant experiences with Trend’s latest offering, but I will not be going back to their solution anytime soon.
UPDATE 02-05-2009:
I decided to give Trend another try and managed to get a working installation. It seemed to work a little better on my XP system vs. my Vista system, but I made some ugly discoveries.
With the second installation, parental controls suddenly decided to work and they proved to be pretty good! I was able to block whole categories of sites and even set up a lockdown timer. It was nice to use a working implementation of parental controls, something that most suites seem to be unable to implement correctly.
My family uses the computer for education, and Trend’s firewall locked down the application they use to the point that the education software would crash on startup. This is a browser/JavaScript application, and in spite of the settings to allow this application to do whatever it wants and in spite of even turning off anything that would interfere with JavaScript (and Java too), Trend’s firewall would not budge. With Trend uninstalled, suddenly out application worked again.
Finally, with Trend installed on both computers, BOTH firewall installations left port 1032 wide open. I found no explanation for this, and there were no runtime issues with closing the port. I fail to understand why a firewall would leave a hole open like this, and that it did it on two separate systems is troubling. No other firewall I have ever installed (and I have installed a lot of them) leaves this port open, including older versions of Trend. In fact, even Windows Firewall hid the computer better.
I stand my by review and my rating of this product. I cannot recommend Trend Internet Security 2009. It is intrusive, temperamental and it does not properly lock down the system. The biggest issue is security, and this security suite isn’t secure.
Rating: 2 / 5