On five occasions Trend Micro blocked a piece of software during its installation without giving the user a choice, something that we penalise AV packages for heavily. Things weren't much better when it came to flagging up legitimate software as harmful. Slightly worrying were the four threats that bypassed the software completely, causing problems for our test machine. The software was able to fully defend against 94 of the 100 simulated threats and neutralised a further two after they had made a start on infecting the system.
^ Deleting a single browser cookie is all it took to get a big smiley face from Trend Micro TitaniumĪ misjudged user interface can be forgiven if protection scores are good, but in this exceptionally competitive round of testing, Trend Micro Titanium was just slightly behind the top-scoring efforts from Norton, Kaspersky and Avast. The Settings menu is almost comically obtuse - there are three tabs to select from, then a fourth button at the bottom left of the window for "Other settings" which could easily have been put in the main settings menu. We turned all the settings on and our internet browsing experience was certainly a more morally palatable. The Data tab has a secure deletion tool and a password manager, although the latter is an extra costing £9.95 for a year.įinally, the Family tab contains a button for parental controls, which let you completely lock down your PC so web pages containing various categories of offensive or child-unfriendly content such as porn and gambling. It works, although it's easy to circumvent by adding spaces or changing letters to uppercase, so we're dubious about how well this will work in the real world. Adding a few digits of your phone number, card or a few letters of your address to its filters will stop any information containing those characters being sent across internet. There's also a tool that allows you to stop yourself or your children from sharing personal information such as phone numbers and credit card information. ^ Trend Micro's interface looks clean, but as soon as you click any buttons, a multitude of annoying animations begin to play
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