Surf the web with confidence
With easy-to-use security features, Trend Micro Internet Security protects your personal information when you email or surf the web:

• 20% smaller file size, 20% faster scan time

• Detects and removes viruses, spyware, and other malicious threats from your computer, email, instant messages, and downloads

• Proven leadership in anti-spam technology, including email and image spam

• Finds and blocks untrustworthy links in email and instant messages

• Stops websites from installing dangerous downloads on your computer

• Quick Scan allows you to quickly find and remove most malware when you are running short on time.

Protect your children online
Enhanced parental controls help you to protect your children from inappropriate content when they go online.

• Block websites with inappropriate content based on specific categories

• Choose when and for how long your children are allowed to go online

• Monitor online activity reports to fine-tune your controls if necessary

Enjoy smart features tailored to your activities
Trend Micro Internet Security safeguards your computer and personal information against the latest threats:

• Prevent unauthorized software from changing your critical applications, without impacting your PC performance

• Pause security updates or scans when you give presentations, watch movies, or play games

• Automatically prevent suspicious software on USB devices from opening.

• Helps you to easily manage all the devices connected to your home network

Maximum Security. Online Freedom.
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro. Enjoy your online activities with complete confidence.
Protects 3 PCs

Keep your personal information safe
Protect up to 3 PCs per household

Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 (TMIS) is a comprehensive security solution for home users. TMIS works with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 and provides protection from viruses, spyware and other internet security threats.

Installation and Setup
Like many other security applications, TMIS uses a setup program: you run the setup program and that downloads and installs the program files. This makes the process extremely straightforward and, depending on the speed of your internet connection, you can have TMIS downloaded and up and running within 10 minutes.

TMIS offers a choice of a regular installation – which installs TMIS with the settings recommended by Trend Micro – or a custom installation.

TMIS works well with its default settings which means that the inexperienced or technically challenged can use the program right out-of-the-box without needing to delve into its options.

Free Trial Version Limitations
The trail version has no limitations and TMIS remains fully functional for the duration of the one month evaluation period.

User Interface
TMIS has a clean and uncluttered interface with zero wasted space. The program’s interface has been extremely well designed and certainly makes navigation easy.

The main screen provides an overview of the security status, subscription information and provides quick access to the program’s scanning and update options.

Buttons on the left-hand side of the screen provide access to options which control the operations of the virus scanner, firewall, parental controls and various other settings.

TMIS also adds a toolbar to Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail which provides easy access to the program’s anti-spam features.

Features
TMIS has an impressive set of features that will protect your computer – and the data that it holds – from viruses and other internet security threats.

As you would expect, TMIS, like other security suites on the market, provides real-time protection from viruses, spyware and other internet security threats as well as customizable on-demand and scheduled scanning options. Additionally, TMIS can integrate with popular email and instant messenger (IM) clients to provide an additional tier of protection and with web browsers to provide protection against phishing scams.

TMIS also has a number of features that are not present in many other internet security suites:

• Prevent unauthorized changes: enabling this option enables you to specify certain actions for certain changes. For example, you can choose to either be prompted for permission or to automatically block programs from creating auto-start entries, altering the Hosts file or altering Internet Explorer’s settings.

• Parental controls: the parental control features in TMIS are more advanced than in many other security suites. You can apply a filter based on age (child, teen or mature teen) or apply a set of custom rules to clock specific types of content (illegal drugs, sex, gambling, etc.). You can also set a web access schedule to limit the times during which your children are able to access websites. Rules can be applied with computer-wide or on a per-user basis.

• Data theft protection: this enables you to apply restrictions to the way in which certain information can leave your computer. For example, you can set TMIS to prevent your credit card number being entered into all web forms except those which you have pre-approved. Or you can set it to prevent your telephone number, address or any other information you choose from leaving your computer via the web, email and instant messenger. The rules can either be applied to all users or on a per-user basis, making it a great way to ensure that you’re children do not give out personal information.

Overall, TIMS has a great set of features that will help keep you, your family and your computer safe and secure.

Performance
Some antivirus packages and internet security suites can have a substantial impact on the performance of your PC. TMIS, however, is extremely light on resources and has practically no impact on performance whatsoever, even when used on a PC with only modest specifications (the test machine for this review was running Windows Vista with 1 GB of RAM).

Security
Trend Micro are one of the biggest names in the security business and their products have long been regarded as cutting edge. TMIS is no exception. The product has earned West Coast Labs Checkmark certification and is packed with state-of-the-art features that will protect your computer a broad range of internet security threats.

Help and Support

TMIS ships with an extensive Help file and there is an abundance of additional support material and documentation in Trend Micro’s online support centre.

No-cost technical support is available via telephone, email and chat (note that users of the trial version are limited to support by email and chat).

All-in-all, TMIS is certainly a very well supported product.

Conclusion
Trend Micro Internet Security is an excellent all-in-one solution for your security needs. The product is competitively priced, easy-to-use and excellent protection from a broad array of internet security threats.

Windows 7™ / Windows Vista™ - All Versions

• Intel™ Pentium™ 800MHz minimum (1GHz recommended), or equivalent processor

• 512 RAM minimum (1GB recommended)

• 500MB hard disk space available for installation

• Monitor with 1024 x 576 minimum resolution and high color

• Internet Connection

Windows XP - 32-bit version with Service Pack 2 or 3 (SP2 or SP3) only

• Intel™ Pentium™ 350MHz minimum, or equivalent processor

• 256 RAM minimum (1GB recommended)

• 500MB hard disk space available for installation

• Monitor with 1024 x 576 minimum resolution and high color

• Internet Connection