Review by Michael Meredith

In a sense, I feel like something of a techno-Goldilocks. Microsoft OneCare had all the features that I liked, yet it couldn’t function well with my wireless router and home network. McAfee Total Protection 2008 seemed fine, and then I couldn’t get the darn thing to register (thus preventing the necessary updates) More so, I was so frustrated with McAfee’s tech support that I finally sent the program back, with a long letter of explanation that unfortunately was never acknowledged. And Norton Antivirus was a similar disappointment after a couple of months of use (it seems that it doesn’t play well with MS Vista updates… at all).nSo now, here I am, a still happy user of Trend Micro Internet Security Pro after two full months. Is it possible that I’ve found techno security happiness?nnThe features are top notch, network management within my AT&T U-verse firewall, active web site security (yes, I’ve had a couple framesets blocked as dangerous and I greatly appreciate that). The regular scans have initiated as scheduled, sometimes finding a few suspect tracking cookies and once something more malevolent.

I particularly like the remote file lock feature, that I can use to store particularly sensitive documents, protecting them should the notebook get stolen. And the registry cleaner is excellent, very fast and effective.

I had no problems installing it, and contrary to some, I’ve not noticed any resource degradation (and I’m always paying attention to that).

So, knowing full well that in three previous purchases, the my product/user relationship went south as soon as I published a glowing review; I have to give this a careful 5 stars. If things go wrong down the road, I’ll come back in and update this, but for some reason I think that this might turn out to be just right!