Review by Nolan Lewis

Trend Micro is a company I have trusted for years to do my free online scanning and get virus information when I was without software yet I have never actually had a product of theirs until recently. I normally went with Mcafee or Norton. When I recieved the product I was pretty interested in trying it. I was fairly impressed with the virus protection yet the firewall, on the otherhand, caused a few problems for me when I would play internet based games through Steam. Normally I would use Sygate’s Internet Firewall instead of the bundled firewall as I feel their software is much easier to control and offers features needed for a more advanced user. The problem I’d been having is that even will the Firewall disabled my connection in games online was constantly dropping. For no reason what so ever it just started out of the blue. At first things were fine but for no reason after about two weeks of use the software started giving me trouble. Even with the software completely turned off, whatever processes were running in memory still caused problems. The only way I could alleviate the issue was by removing the software. Upon the uninstall the problems ceased. Now I’m not going to say 100% that Trend Micro is what caused the connection troubles but it sure seems like it was more than coincidence that my problems stopped upon uninstall. Whether it was a scheduled recent update they had done that caused the issue or just a temporary bug in the software it was rather annoying. Still I am pleased as stated before with the virus portion of the software. It detects and finds mostly everything every other antivirus software out there will find and doesn’t use much processing power to do so. It also is not difficult to navigate in the least. I would recommend getting just the anti-virus portion and leave the firewall stuff up to another company that has more experience in that area. My suggestion is buy the product from the people that specialize in it. Get your antivirus software from the people who specialize in antivirus software, get your firewall from the people who specialize in firewalls, and get your spyware software from the people who specialize in spyware. Simple as that.