Review by ut158

I installed this on my netbook. Netbooks’ are small, light-weight and have fabulously long battery life but this comes at the expense of computational power–this isn’t the machine you use for if multi-tasking is what you have in mind. As such, I didn’t want an AV suite that was going to hog all my resources, yet I wanted active, reliable security. I decided to give this product a whirl since it was advertised as being light weight due to using Cloud computing technology. It never explains exactly how that comes into play, but from what I gather, it does a lot of on-the-fly checking against Trend Micro’s servers as you surf. I could be wrong, I don’t know.

Anyway, it seems to work well. A previous virus scanner had expired, so I uninstalled that one and installed this. The default scan looks at only the most critical areas and goes very, very quickly (mine took under 3 min.). Fast is good, but there’s only so much you can see on a hard drive in under 3 min. (there IS an I/O bandwidth bottleneck, after all) so I dug through the UI a little and found the option to do a full scan which I did right away and… found an infected .jar file (that the other scanner had missed). Cool!nnWe have been using this on the netbook for weeks now and have not noticed any amount of slow down and it caught that one threat (plus it deletes privacy cookies, etc.) so I’m very satisfied. On top of that, installation was fast and easy and the settings are all pretty much set-it-and-forget-it.

Recommended.