Review by Tamara Thorne

I’ve tried many AV suites and always come back to Trend Micro products. If you want comprehensive protection without a lot of interference and bloat; if you want to be safe but don’t care to sacrifice speed, Titanium Maximum Security Premium 2012 is an excellent choice.

The program is licensed for three computers and I installed it on two laptops running Windows 7. One computer has very little on it; the other is overloaded with data. The program installed with equal ease on both, and did an excellent job of scanning and vetting both hard drives.

Trend Micro’s AV will not eat up your resources like so many other programs will, and it runs in the background without slowing you down. Not only that, but you can configure it easily to do only what you want.

I recently switched to a Mac and it actually includes a disk for Mac. Until recently, AVs for Mac have been unnecessary, but new exploits like the current Java one are happening every day, so I just may try it out. After I do, I’ll report back.