Trend Micro’s offline detection rate was also low at 52.3 percent. That compromise percentage was actually the worst-performing score for the March 2020 test.

Trend Micro also scored 99.2 percent in AV-Comparatives’ malware protection test for March 2020 with one false positive and 0.8 percent compromised against more than 10,000 malware samples. Trend Micro blocked 100 percent of 372 sample threats in the February and March 2020 real-world protection test with 16 false positives. Trend Micro recommends you only use this feature for online shopping and banking, not regular browsing.ĪV-Comparatives had similar results. You can always tell when Pay Guard is active, because the browser window will have a solid border to indicate it’s a secure session. Trend Micro also added a new feature called Pay Guard that opens a secure sandboxed browser in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, but has no Edge support. This featured should either be dropped or significantly reworked. Chrome support is restricted to a nonexistent toolbar instead of an add-on. In our tests, however, we only saw options to do this with Internet Explorer, which is not a good look in the age of Windows 10.

The Privacy Scanner option is supposed to automatically scan social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to optimize your privacy settings. It’s also supposed to scan your web browsers to make sure they are as private as possible. The Privacy tab has features designed to keep sensitive data from leaving your PC, though some are less than useful. Mute Mode is great for gamers who want to shut down their backup program or other apps when it’s time to play.

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