Ed - Trend Micro have started a brand new beta for 2005; main new features include home network control, Wifi detection / protection, MS vuln. check, spyware, and a turbo scan.
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View: Trend Micro Homepage
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View: Trend Micro HomepageHome network control
Home Network Control enables you to control supported Trend Micro software installed on other computers on your local area network (LAN). You can scan other computers on the network for viruses, update their program components, and check them for known Microsoft security vulnerabilities. You can also configure and view the properties and logs of the Trend Micro software on other networked computers.
Wi-Fi detection
Wi-Fi detection monitors your network and warns you of unwanted intrusions. Since accessing a wireless Ethernet (Wi-Fi) is much easier than making a physical connection, network intrusion has become a serious security problem. Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security will scan your network at the interval you specify, and warn you when new computers connect.
Microsoft security vulnerability check
Security Check inspects your computer for vulnerabilities that Trend Micro has identified as presenting a significant risk. These vulnerabilities or "security holes" make it easy for attackers, viruses or other Internet threats to harm your computer. Microsoft has publicly identified these vulnerabilities as issues that exist in their software. Patching security vulnerabilities helps significantly reduce the chance your computer will be attacked or infected by viruses.
Spyware scan and clean
Many Internet threats are not viruses or other inherently malicious code. Rather, they are applications which compromise your privacy, allow hackers to take control of your computer without your knowledge, or annoy you. They are frequently unknowingly downloaded along with desired applications. These threats include spyware, adware, dialers, joke programs, hack tools, remote access tools, password cracking applications, and other uncategorized software. Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security can scan for and clean these threats manually, or as a part of a Real-time Scan.
Turbo Scan
Turbo Scan allows you to speed up Manual Scan by skipping files that have already been scanned. When Turbo Scan is enabled, Trend Micro Internet Security keeps a record files that have been scanned. If there have been no changes to the file since it was last scanned, it is not scanned again. This can substantially reduce the time required for a Manual Scan.
Lightweight installation mode
The Lightweight installation mode allows you to install Trend Micro Internet Security with only Real-time Scan enabled, one of the most popular configurations used.
Anyone else haveing problems downloading the new build ?
Last edited by 34933 on 26 Aug 2004 - 15:46
some people said that extendia is the best antivirus out there never tried so i cant say others like symantec corporate (many ways different from navi 2004) anyways i recommend pc-cillin in price and in performance and also comes with a firewall (a very weak one)
However ir0nw0lf, I do suggest switching off NAV, as it's rather inefficient at finding viruses. I would suggest you try the Free Online Virus Scan from Trend-Micro, if you suspect you have viruses, i'm sure it'll find them, as it has succeeded for me when NAV could not.
Search the forums, I remember a discussion on this antivirus of recent.
At the first few boots, it took a while to initialize at boot up. But when I started it up this evening, it was a lot quicker. Other than that it looks like a good beta
Wi-Fi detection stuff is cool
Ad-ware scan is great, detected a lot of stuff Ad-Aware SE 1.03 Professional didnt find
Overall nice job guys
What I meant by bloated was that the extra features would drag the computer down like NIS did on my computer. In fact, when I used to click on the TM icon in the system tray there was a a couple of seconds hesitation before the TM window came up. Now it is almost simultaneous (when I had NIS it took almost 15 seconds before the NIS window came up).
I admit the firewall isn't so flashy as others. In fact it reminds me of XP's firewall as far as being silent (except it monitors outgoing unlike XP's). The only alerts I get are the more serious ones--three since I got TM last April. It passed every stealth test I tried on it plus TM updates the attack signatures for it. I like this "set it and forget it" kind of firewall, I don't need popup balloons to remind me it is working.
After running the Trend Micro program I noticed a couple things right away, my computer seems to run quicker and boot faster. I ran the full test at PC Pitstop and my score went up by over 50 points, and when I checked my Internet speed it seems to be about 10/20 kbps faster....I'll need to average that out over a few days to be sure.
The only quirk so far seems to be the spyware scan, it seems to run in about 2 seconds, I cant be sure if it's really checking anything.
OK, My bad...I just realized that you have to turn on the spyware feature manually and check what you want it to scan for.
Hummmm, still takes only a couple seconds.....
Last edited by 1065 on 30 Aug 2004 - 03:28
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