Review by Greeny

I installed Trend Micro on Vista. Installation was fast and painless. Then I familiarized myself with the console, which is pretty intuitive except that I might not get around to ever using the advanced options. I ran a scan and several problems were identified and managed, and it was surprising how fast that went. I switched to Trend Micro firewall as I don’t see any reason to run a different firewall instead.

It seems that Trend Micro can work with the least amount of user management, which suites me, and without even communicating that it’s there in the background running. I’m really glad to have this full suite with antivirus, anti-spyware and Internet security all in one and not experience conflicts with any other software. I might never use the features to secure confidential files because I offload files onto thumb drives regularly as I don’t want to keep files long-term on any home computer with Internet connectivity.

Because this program is so unobtrusive and undemanding, I imagine I’ll have no second thoughts about paying for next year once this year is up. Plus, if I develop an interest in seeing the Security Activity Dashboard, familiarization will make me want to continue.