Review by Mindcrime

I have used Trend Micro on a number of Windows PC’s for years. I have always been happy with their products and the small footprint of the installation. I am not one to turn on all the features of these full fledge security products, such as parental controls. What I do use them for is anti-virus and malicious downloads from web sites. At those levels of protection, Trend Micro does a very good job. The product is not intrusive and does not slow down your computer. This product offers 3 licenses which is very nice for todays households who often have multiple pc’s running. I have a Windows 7, Windows 7 virtual, and an older Vista laptop that I have this running on.

Installation was straight forward except on one computer, the physical win 7 laptop. I was running another virus product on that laptop and removed it before installing Trend Micro. When I installed Trend Micro it gave an install error and wouldn’t let me move forward. The error had a link to it and the instructions stated that I needed to remove the product and reinstall. This had to be performed by a temp folder that the software installed on the laptop. Problem was that the temp folder was never created. I was able to find the folder and uninstall program on the install disk but average user may not look or find it there. Once i ran the uninstall utility and reinstalled everything ran fine Not sure why I got the error, the error message did not give much detail. The other pc’s installed fine so might have been something left over from the other virus product that caused issues but not sure. Outside of that issue everything has been working as expected.

Overall this is another good product from Trend Micro. It offers good protection from typical security threats. I would recommend this product to anyone looking for a security suite for the whole family.