Review by Jerry Jackson Jr.

I’ve used my different anti-virus and security applications on many different computers over the years, and I’m reasonably impressed with Trend Micro Internet Security Pro. The application is easy to install, it’s easy to adjust the settings to fit your needs, it automatically updates regularly, and it identifies threats that some other applications miss.

I’ve been running two other security and anti-virus applications on my computer over the last year and neither of those programs identified a Trojan Horse that had been installed on my computer. After I installed Trend Micro Internet Security, it immediately identified the Trojan Horse and quarantined the file to protect my computer. I did a Google search to find out more about the quarantined file (to make sure it was a Trojan Horse and not a safe file that was misidentified) and sure enough it is a known malware/Trojan Horse file that compromised my computer’s security.

Thankfully, this application identified it and got rid of it.

Now, here are the minor problems I have with Trend Micro Internet Security: First, even if I set the application to only update at a specific time it will sometimes update immediately after reboot even if it has already updated the security software that day. This is good if you want to make sure your security files/virus definitions are up to date, but it stinks if you don’t want the program downloading updates all the time.

Second, depending on the number of start-up applications I have running on my system, Trend Micro Internet Security Pro sometimes generates a strange error message telling me to stay off the internet until my parents have changed the parental controls. I’m a 31-year-old adult who is married and has a kid of his own. I disabled the parental controls (because my 2-year-old isn’t using the computer yet) but I still get this strange error message about 50% of the time when I start up my computer. If the parental controls have been disabled (turned off) I should NOT be getting error messages telling me to stay off the internet until my mommy and daddy fix the computer.

Hopefully these two problems are corrected in a future update.

Overall, I still highly recommend this software for people who want to keep their computer’s safe. I just hope the update schedule controls and parental control issues are resolved with a future update from Trend Micro.