Review by Earth Spirits

TREND makes an average security software lineup priced accordingly. I have not problems with this software. It does pretty much as advertised. If you want to get away from all the hype with the big name products like McAfee and Norton then this is a potential option.

It is setup to run basic/minimal security out of the box. I’m sure TREND doesn’t want to overwhelm the average Windows user and increase their likely hood of getting more tech phone calls. I prefer a more robust setting with better protection. You can go in a change the settings to a more advanced setup, but this is not easy for the average user.

It was easy to install and removes any old security programs you may have on your computer that may cause a conflict with it. Modern security programs need to have complete control and don’t like sharing resources with other competing programs.

I like that is comes on a usb key. CD’s are so last decade now. With more and more people with broadband internet they tend to just junk up your office or get scratched. This is also nice for netbook and users without a cd/dvd drive.

Running the program did cause a few of the built-in windows security features to conflict. Windows firewall flagged up a warning as TREND’s firewall was being setup. The firewall was also set to minimal protection as default. This provides virtually no protection. Make sure to change this.

Windows XP users shouldn’t have many problems with this program. Be careful if your running the new Windows 7 as many people have reported that this does not run well on it.