I’m thinking about switching from McAfee to Trend Micro for my anti-virus, anti-malware, and firewall needs. I’ve used McAfee for years and it has always slightly gotten on my nerves (though it seems to work well enough), but a few months ago Consumer Reports rated Trend Micro quite highly – higher than McAfee – and the cost is comparable. The product I’m considering is Trend Micro Internet Security 2008.
Is anyone using Trend Micro stuff right now? What do you think? Any problems? Would anyone recommend staying with McAfee instead?
I had McAfee for a while. Hated it. One day it happily informed me that I got a virus, and there was nothing it could do about it. I fought with the machine for a couple of days, then gave up and reformatted, and never used McAfee again.
We used to use Trend Micro at work. I was able to use it at home as well because I did work on my home computers. It seemed to work pretty well.
I use Avast! at home, but where I work we use Trend Micro (and PC Cillin at various branches/offices). :: shrugs :: It’s fine. Does what it’s supposed to, though sometimes we need to use Hijack This! in addition to it. Then again, you can’t necessarily blame the anti-virus for that when you see the metric shit tons of CRAP that people download.
Apparently Sophos has been rated most effective product in a number of independent reviews. I saw one the other day and it was interesting - McAfee and Symantec were quite a way down the chart - with a number of free products (and a large number of commercial ones) topping them for effectiveness.
I believe that Consumer Reports included several free applications in their ratings, and Trend Micro still came out on top. (If I still have that issue it’s in the basement, and I just hauled two loads of laundry up two flights of stairs from there so I don’t really feel like going back down right now. But I’ll look for it tomorrow.) Plus the free firewall that folks here tend to recommend, ZoneAlarm, seems kind of unreliable and is apparenty a nightmare to uninstall easily/cleanly. Also I do believe that, to an extent, you get what you pay for, and I’d rather pay for an all-in-one solution that I know is highly rated and includes upgrades and support than download two or three different apps that may or may not work well, may or may not integrate, may or may not include upgrades, etc.
Hopefully I won’t need additional anti-virus to protect my computer from just myself.
I just looked at their website, and they provide business solutions. Nothing for individuals. And their pricing reflects that.
I use Trend Micro. I started with PCillin and moved up to their Internet Security program. As Consumer Reports has said, they really are the best out there for ease of use and daily updates. I have used Norton and McAfee earlier but always had problems or even severe infections that they did not catch. The company I work for uses the Trend Micro Client program to protect out servers and the IT guys love it!
Just my two cents.
For years I have used Norton with no problems, and never found it to be the memory hog that most people complained about.
When my Norton subscription ran out, I decided to get the Trend Micro based upon the review in Consumer Report.
I don’t know what the deal was, but it slowed my computer down to almost a standstill. I tried different settings and such, but it made everything run so slow that I honestly thought the computer had frozen up and I had to reboot. It seemed to affect all kinds of things and slowed down any operation. I finally got sick of it one day and removed it from my computer. Immediately, everything went back to normal speed. I got the latest Norton and the computer works as fine and fast with Norton as it did without.
I have no idea why Trend ran so badly on my computer, but I just couldn’t run it without the computer running so slow it was usless.
We use Trend Micro at work, a hundred or so servers running constant I/O and we needed something that wouldn’t interfere with testing. Dumped McAfee and wipe it off of any machines I get my grubby little fingers on (assets move between labs fairly regularly) with nary a problem. It’s not a resource hog (our primary concern when loading non test related software), but it sometimes has trouble with deeply infected machines. Oh, it did have trouble on Windows '03 Itanium a couple of years ago, but I think that’s fixed. Or maybe it was when x64 first came out…
Enterprise version, but I’d run on my home machines if I wasn’t such a cheapskate.
I bought Trend Internet Security 2007 for a Vista machine. it is excellent (have used both McAfee and Norton). It can be annoying in kicking you off IM with no warning if it decides to update. However, a nice surprise today was that they upgraded me to Trend Internet Security 2008 (via download) for free. I was chuffed with that.
A word though- a few months back I assisted a friend buy a Vista machine in another city. I also recommended Trend- it would not let her ADSL connection run. (She had just signed uo to that- the other connection was dial up). I believe where it was bought from was clearing older stock- it was “Vista capable” rather than built for Vista so i would ensure I would get the most up to date product available.
I really would recommend it from my experience though.
AV software is notably one of those things where what you pay isn’t really a very reliable indicator of what you will get, but as you’re looking at ratings, I’m sure you’ll come to the right choice for you.
It sounds like it certainly won’t hurt me (or my computer) to try the Trend Micro suite, and barring any problems like stanger had it seems like it should be a keeper. Yay! I’ll still double-check the Consumer Reports ratings when I get home, though, and might also look into AVG and PC-Cillin (since they’ve both been mentioned a couple of times here).
In a weird way, it’s kind of comforting to know that so many other people dislike McAfee. When I started this thread, part of me wondered if I’d wind up with an avalanche of “McAfee is the best!! Why would you change it?!” replies. I only use it because when I first got a cable modem the cable company offered it for free.
Thanks for the heads-up! I’m running Windows XP Pro (SP2) and using a cable modem, so hopefully I won’t have any issues. I’ll be downloading the latest version right from the Trend Micro site, in any case.
In my PC days I sometimes used the Trend Micro online scan to check my PC over, and never had a problem. ISTR that it was an ActiveX downloadable program and needed Internet Explorer though.
I checked my PC at work today. We’re still using Trend Micro. If it’s good enough for our IT guys that’s a decent endorsement.
My PC at work is XP Pro SP2, and it’s not unique, so that shouldn’t be a problem for you. The only version of Windows we don’t have at work is Vista since the IT guys have forbidden us to connect any Vista box anywhere to our corporate network.
I started with PC-Cillin (or whatever it’s called), which worked wonderfully, and was “upgraded” to the 2007 version when I resubscribed.
2007 did the same thing for me. Slowed me down almost to a standstill. Of course, I was too lazy to try to go about getting a refund and finding something else, so I just let it be.
I was upgraded to 2008 when I resubscribed again, and it’s working wonderfully. No speed issues. 2007 was definitely a massive memory hog.
I use TrendMicro and it works fine. Slows things down a bit when getting updates, but not for long.
It does tend to think that eBay is a phishing site, however.
