Trend Micro slipped a bit in the lab's July-September 2020 round, letting one piece of malware infect the test machine and resulting in a 96% protection score. London-based SE Labs (opens in new tab) pays attention to how antivirus products handle malware after detection. But the tradeoff was a total of 95 false positives compared to Bitdefender's six and Kaspersky's two, hinting that Trend Micro may be a little too eager to declare a new file dangerous.

Trend Micro performs better than most in tests conducted by Austrian lab AV-Comparatives (opens in new tab), racking up 100% detection rates in all of 2020 while industry stalwarts such as Bitdefender and Kaspersky missed a few. Bitdefender, Kaspersky and Norton have similar records, although almost all the brands we review have been acing the AV-TEST evaluations lately. Trend Micro consistently gets perfect or near-perfect scores in German lab AV-TEST (opens in new tab)'s bimonthly evaluations, missing only a couple of pieces of brand-new 'zero-day' malware. Latest test results as of January 2021 Malware detection rates Anything suspicious gets uploaded to the company's labs for analysis, but you can opt out of this data collection if you think it reveals too much New malware 'signatures' are sent to tens of millions of client devices several times a day. Trend Micro: Antivirus protectionĪll Trend Micro security programs (opens in new tab) start by scanning for known malware, then augment that with heuristic analysis to spot the early signs of an attack. Maximum and Premium Security software for other platforms support macOS 10.13 or higher, Android 4.1 or newer, iOS 9 or later and Chrome OS version 79 or higher. Unfortunately, there are no unlimited-device plans.Įach of the Trend Micro antivirus programs work with Windows 7 (with SP 1) through Windows 10, except for ARM-based systems. My advice is to shop around because Trend Micro often offers steep discounts as well as special deals for two-year subscriptions. You also get priority support and emergency assistance. Both these items require a separate download and installation, but while the VPN is available for PCs, Macs, iOS and Android devices and Chromebooks, the ID Security app is only for iOS and Android.

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