On the other hand, companies like Trend Micro must consider whether users will panic if it is mentioned clearly and then disable their computers from contributing data to the cloud.Īs long as the data is truly kept anonymous, then it can be an exceptional tool for preventing malware.

It's been around for a few years, although this year more security suites are adopting it. On the one hand, the technology that allows the publisher to leverage supposedly anonymous data from its customers to catch surreptitiously-running threats faster isn't brand new. There is a box you can check at installation to opt out of the behavioral program, but there's no detailed or clear explanation of what it is or what it does. One thing that Trend Micro fails to do effectively is call out its behavioral engine. It will detect and ask for approval to remove other antivirus programs that are installed on your machine, but it doesn't require a reboot after it's done-something most of its competitors do.

The Trend Micro installation process is about as smooth and pain-free as one can expect for a program that will have such deep hooks into your system. Trend Micro claims that boot times are 20 percent faster, that the programs use 40 percent less RAM, that the download itself is 25 percent smaller, and that the quick scan on Windows Vista and Windows XP is 20 percent faster.

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