Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 Review and Discount Coupon Codes

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 is a complete security solution to safeguard your computer from viruses, malware, spyware and protect you when you're surfing the Internet from malicious websites that try to attack your computer.

Trend Micro 2010 products are better than some of the competing products being offered. Their Internet Security Pro, Internet Security and the Antivirus Plus Anti-spyware packages have been improved over earlier versions. Their performance is better now and it takes less time to boot the computer as compared to earlier. We noticed that it takes much less time to boot the computer than it did in the previous version. It also uses much less memory. The download size of the program is 25% less than the previous version. The full system scan too is much quicker. There are many new features in this version of Trend Micro Internet Security Pro. This software is more comprehensive and elaborate as compared to Trend Micro Internet Security and Trend Micro Antivirus.

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 Discount Coupon Codes

The original price is $49.95 for protection of 3 PCs. These coupons belowget you a $5 discount on this price, bringing it to $44.95. There is an unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee.

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 uses a behavior-based prevention system to identify viruses and guard your computer. You do not however get to know exactly how Trend Micro does this. It uses its own methodology to determine when a program is exhibiting suspicious behavior. You can opt out of this by un-checking a box. We do not recommend this as it is an important feature of this program. Trend Micro transmits anonymous data from your computer to their servers to help them identify and tackle viruses. This is the method which most antivirus software and security solution suites have been using for several years now. In the recent past more and more security solutions software have started using behavioral engines. Some users are wary about sending anonymous data to the antivirus solution provider.

The user interface of Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 is an improvement over the earlier versions with better utilization of space and easier access to security tools and status. If your computer is protected and all is well you will see a large green icon. If your computer is unprotected or unsafe you see a red icon. You can also view your license information and security report at a glance.

You can view a lot of information about Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 and how your computers be protected by it. You can view the status of your virus definition files, see where it was last updated, customize the firewall settings, tweak the spam filter, make changes to the parental controls to meet your requirements and prevent theft of data from your computer. There are icons for everything. If the icon is green, it's on and if it's red it means it's off.

If you go to the overview tab you can initialize a complete scan of your computer and also manually update the virus definition files. When you scan your computer, the default option is that of a quick scan. You can order custom scan. When Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 scans your computer, a window is opened to provide information about the scan. In this window you can see details about the threats that Trend Micro is looking for and the files being scanned at any point of time. You can view live results and run the scan in the background if you prefer. You can also configure the computer to shut down automatically after the scan has been completed. Based on the configuration that you determine, threats that are found are dealt with automatically or based on the input that you provide. If you configure it to fix the threats automatically, you'll be shown a window after the completion of the scan that will provide detailed information about the action taken by Trend Micro Internet security Pro 2010. There will also be links to pages on the Trend Micro official website where you can read more information about these threats. This is a helpful feature because it lets even complete beginners understand the nature of these threats and manage the security of their computers in a more informed manner.

There are four drop-down menus within the virus and spyware controls tab. When you're downloading files this software automatically checks for any viruses or malicious files. This way your protected from downloading potential spyware to your computer. This check is largely based on observing suspicious behavior. You can prevent the security solutions suite from doing this if you toggle it off. This is not recommended. There are also features with which you can better manage cookies being downloaded to your computer. You can white list or blacklist websites.

There is a Prevent Unauthorized Changes drop-menu that gives you better control over the programs installed on your computer. With this drop-menu you can regulate installed programs that trend micro does not recognize.

There is a tab with which you can manage schedule scans and create custom scans. This way you can scan your computer during coffee breaks or during your lunch hour. That way it doesn't affect your work at all and your computer remains protected all the time. If you want to schedule updates you can do so from another section of the software. You can't use the scheduler to check for updates more frequently than once an hour.

The personal firewalls controls tab allows you to customize the firewall to meet your requirement. There is a lot of data about the firewall that you can view at a glance. If you're an expert at this, you'll appreciate the flexibility that it gives you.

There is a network connection status tab within Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 with which you can disconnect the Internet connection.

The Internet and e-mail controls tab comprises of parental controls, the antispam features, protection against threats on the Internet and the data theft prevention list. You can prevent your data from being disseminated on the Internet via web forms. This theft prevention feature only seems to work with SMTP e-mail and instant messenger software. You can determine the protocols with which protected data can be transmitted and disallow the ones that you don't want included. You can add customized data fields to protect your information. The anti-phishing measures work in conjunction with the whiteness and blacklists

The parental control features offered by trend micro can be configured to have different levels of Internet access for adults, teens and children. Within the teens, you can have separate settings for mature teens and can further customize from here. You can determine Internet access times and the number of hours of Internet access to each user each day.

The Pro version of the suite also gets you protection for mobile phones. This works with Symbian and Windows based mobile phones. You can download a software that will work correctly for your specific model of mobile phone. More and more viruses are being created to target mobile phones and getting a with the Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 security solutions suite is a nice bonus.

We didn't found any performance setbacks or slowdowns after installing Trend Micro. The initial full system scan took some time to complete but subsequent scans were much quicker. It had some trouble coping with the default browser setting with this got fixed without any intervention on our part. It did not slow down the computer when booting by more than 3-4 seconds.

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 comes with free customer support. There is a lot of documentation on their website, FAQs and videos that will help you fix any problems. They also offer online chat and phone support. The best part about this software is that it also comes with a free mobile protection software. Competing products available may be somewhat superior to trend micro. It is difficult to compare as Trend Micro does not participate in the major lab tests that their competitors are subject to. Yet given the fact that it doesn't slow down the computer significantly and the mobile protection, it is worth considering.

System Requirements

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 works with Microsoft Windows XP/ Windows 7/ Windows Vista. You'll need a monitor with with 1024 x 576 minimum resolution and high color. You need 500 MB of disk space for installation. The minimum RAM recommended is 256 MB for Windows XP and 512 MB for Windows 7/ Windows Vista.

This software supports both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. IMAP and POP3 email account clients and services including Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL mail, MSN hotmail etc are supported.

Instant Messengers including Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ are supported.