“Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus 2011” plus 1 more |
| Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus 2011 Posted: 15 Feb 2011 07:06 PM PST Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus Plus 2011 Review, by Nick Mediati January 24, 2011 Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus Plus 2011 ($60 for 1 year, 3 PCs as of 12/15/2010) finished fifth in our roundup of 2011 antivirus products. It's simple--some may say too simple--and easy to use, and it did a reasonably good job at blocking malware.
As for actually using Titanium Antivirus, well, saying it's set-and-forget simple might be an understatement. When you first launch it, Titanium Antivirus touts its "Cloud" capabilities, and how you won't have to download updates--it takes care of all that for you. The main interface is extremely straightforward: A big green checkmark indicates that you're protected. There are only a few buttons--one for scanning, one for settings, and one for stats. This super-simple approach isn't for everyone--if you like flipping toggles and tweaking settings, Titanium Antivirus isn't for you. If you can't be bothered with adjusting settings, you'll love Titanium Antivirus. The downside, though, is that Trend Micro's documentation is rather scant and provides few specifics. In terms of detection performance, Trend Micro put up very good scores, though not quite top-notch ones. It detected 98.4 percent of samples of recent known malware--a strong result. It also fully blocked 88 percent of brand new malware attacks, and partially blocked an additional 8 percent. This puts it above average, but not quite at the top of the leaderboard (the top performer in this test fully blocked 96 percent of new malware attacks). Titanium Antivirus also proved to be effective at disinfecting PCs: It detected all infections on our test PC, removed all active components in 80 percent of the cases, and removed all traces of an infection 60 percent of the time. Trend Micro had a low rate of false positives overall, but it was one of only two products we looked at to flag a good file as bad using its behavioral detection engine (which detects malware based on how it acts on your PC--a good way of stopping new, as-yet unknown malware). Overall, Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus had a moderate impact on PC performance in our tests, finishing right around average for the products we looked at. Scan speeds were a mixed bag, though: it was one of the better performers in on-access scans which kick off when you open or save a file, but its on-demand scans--which you start manually--were a good bit slower than average. This is better than the reverse scenario where on-access speeds scans lag--those scans happen much more frequently--but it can still be frustrating to deal with. That said, Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus Plus 2011 performed well in most of our tests, and is worth your consideration. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2011 07:07 PM PST GFI (formerly Sunbelt) Vipre Antivirus 2011 ($30 for one year, one PC, as of 12/18/2010) finishes tenth in our roundup of 2011 paid antivirus software. Vipre is the epitome of the expression "mixed bag." It detected known malware well, cleaned up after infections competently, and it's reasonably speedy. But its design is cluttered, and it struggled mightily at stopping brand new malware. Installing Vipre Antivirus 2011 is reasonably straightforward, but it does require you to restart as part of the installation process--a slight annoyance . Vipre's main interface is generally clean, but some important information gets lost. The scan button, for example, seems to blend in with everything else on the screen. The overview pane provides a decent overview of your PC's protection status. The settings window feels cluttered, and it's hard to understand at a glance. Some of the copywriting needs work--the wording may be unfriendly and overcomplicated for some users. But on the positive side, each tab has descriptive text describing what the settings are for. Vipre Antivirus is an inconsistent defender: It did perform reasonably well in detecting known malware, finding 97.9 percent of samples. This is a good score, but behind the top performers, which managed detection rates of over 99 percent. Vipre also did a serviceable job at disinfection: it removed all active components 70 percent of the time, and removed all malware components -- active and inactive -- 40 percent of the time. These, again, are good scores, but not quite up to what top performers managed (top-scoring products removed active components 80 percent of the time). It didn't fare as well, however, in "real-world" detection tests that show how well an antivirus product can block brand new malware. It fully blocked only 60 percent of malware attacks, and partially blocked an additional 16 percent. This was well behind the average full-blocking rate of 83 percent, and placed it at the back of the pack in this test. No product we tested fully blocked all samples, but Norton Antivirus 2011 managed to fully block 96 percent of attacks. Vipre also had some minor false positive issues, flagging six good files as potentially malicious, but the overall rate as a percentage of the files Vipre evaluated was still quite low. GFI claims that Vipre won't slow down your PC, and in this case it delivers: It had one of the fastest manual "on-demand" scan speeds among the products we looked at for this roundup (1 minute, 41 seconds to scan 4.5GB), and it was reasonably fast in on-access tests that judge how quickly it can scan files as they're opened or saved, scanning 4.5GB of files in 4 minutes, 20 seconds. And its impact on overall PC performance was quite low, completing most of the speed tests we put it through with faster-than-average times. If GFI can improve Vipre's blocking of brand new malware, and put some more effort into the interface, it could become a contender. But as it stands now, though, we can't recommend Vipre Antivirus 2011. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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