Most of you need to shut up. Its F R E E. Meaning NO MONEY REQUIRED. Who cares if Norton or McAfee is better than this FREE download.

Thanks, Mister C!

YankeeRedneck said:gadgetman said:Avast for me has worked great. Anyone else use it?

I hate how avast updates its database CONSTANTLY. Anyway to stop auto updates (didnt see this option)

It has a big footprint and slows down the lappy.............

Wait...you want to stop the auto updates ? You hate the way Avast updates constantly ? I see updates every couple of days on my Avast. Ummm.. updates mean that the folks at Avast are doing their homework. That means that you are getting the latest and greatest virus definitions added to your system. And that means that you are better protected from threats on the net than you were before the update took place.

aares said:Most of you need to shut up. Its F R E E. Meaning NO MONEY REQUIRED. Who cares if Norton or McAfee is better than this FREE download.

I agree with you . . . . except Trend makes great stuff. This is pro quality software. Period. Full stop.

Not gonna knock Norton or McAfee . . . . . . but I'll take Trend over them any day of the week! It's a no-brainer.

wuhoo said:im using avg, is it worth it to switch to either Trend Micro or avast?

Same question here. I thought AVG was fine.

Is Avast better?

I used Trend-micro before and it locked my computer up.

I would have thought the same thing until I used Norton Internet Security 2009. Norton 2009 is by far the best suite I have ever used and I have used a bunch of them, including Kaspersky 2009, Trend Micro 2008, AVG, Avast, WebRoot, etc. It uses less system resources than any suite and has top notch performance in scans on my system.

guardian44 said:aares said:Most of you need to shut up. Its F R E E. Meaning NO MONEY REQUIRED. Who cares if Norton or McAfee is better than this FREE download.

I agree with you . . . . except Trend makes great stuff. This is pro quality software. Period. Full stop.

Not gonna knock Norton or McAfee . . . . . . but I'll take Trend over them any day of the week! It's a no-brainer.

ronotran said:HAHHAA you know that for all the trouble to get the cd, it only for 1 month service right? When you go to register you can sign up for 1 month, 1 year, 2 years, or 3 years antivirus service
For real? Only 1 month free?

Mr. C, you did good. I want to say that first so you don't get mad at this joke: What do you give someone who has everything? I don't know but I would start with ...

I seem to remember there being a prob with Ad-Aware when using 2008 or maybe 2007 Trend Micro Internet Security Suite. Can anyone enlighten me? If so, would using 2006 be the answer? Thanks!

FWIW I manage an IT department and we have Trend Micro installed on over 2000 machines and servers. In my consulting days I personally built an environment and rolled out Norton AV Corporate to ~5000 machines. Also worked closely with Sophos back in the 90's while I'm pimping geek cred.

First let me say this: AV and anti-spy/malware is NOT the place to cheap out on a PC.

As for trend specifically, it's a decent product. Not the best, not the worst. Free makes it attractive but there are other free AV products out there too.

We often (meaning ~3-5 times a week in 2000+ machines) get an uncleanable virus reported to our central AV server. Almost all of them are false alerts. When unsure, we run AVG