Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2013

By Neil J. Rubenking

Trend Micro stuffs most of the security suite suite components into their entry-level antivirus product, and adds all the rest in their full-scale security suite. So what's left to distinguish Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2013 ? Quite a lot, as it turns out. This mega-suite incorporates Trend Micro's separately-available password protection and backup/sync products, as well as an additional parental control system that focuses on social networking.

The only visible difference between the main window of Maximum Security and Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2013 is the program name in the title bar. Virtually everything else is the same, as most of the added features get installed separately. I'll summarize shared features here. For full details you'll want to read the reviews of Internet Security and of Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus+ 2013 .

Antivirus Protection
Installing Trend Micro on my dozen malware-infested test systems required a lot of help and ancillary cleanup programs from tech support. Trend Micro flagged all of my analysis tools as Trojans simply based on their super-low prevalence; I had to rescue them all from quarantine.

Trend Micro detected 76 percent of the threats, the same as Kaspersky PURE 2.0 Total Security . Norton 360 (2013) and Kaspersky Internet Security (2013) detected 89 percent. Norton scored highest of recent products, with 6.6 points while Trend Micro got 6.1 points. The article How We Test Malware Removal explains how I come up with these scores.

Trend Micro detected 97 percent of threats in my malware blocking test and scored 9.3 points. The top scorer in this test was SecureIT Plus with 9.7 points. Tested against my previous malware collection, Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete managed a perfect 10 of 10 possible points. For an explanation of my malware blocking test and its scoring, see How We Test Malware Blocking.

Trend Micro doesn't participate in testing with all of the independent labs. Those that do test Trend Micro technology rate it good, not great. The chart below summarizes recent independent lab tests. To learn more about the labs and their tests, see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests.

Good Protection Against Frauds and Spammers
The entry-level antivirus includes effective protection against fraudulent websites that try to steal your login credentials. In testing, its detection rate lagged 16 percentage points behind antiphishing champ Norton, but it beat Internet Explorer alone by 28 points. That's impressive given that the majority of antiphishing solutions I've tested score worse than IE alone. For details on how I find very new phishing sites and calculate these scores, see How We Test Antiphishing.

I had to let the Trend Micro antispam test run overnight, as downloading and categorizing email took four times as long as with no spam filter installed. It misfiled just 0.2 percent of valid mail as spam and let less than 11 percent of undeniable spam into the Inbox. That's better than most, though a few suites have proven still more accurate. For a full run-down of my antispam testing technique, see How We Test Antispam.

The entry-level antivirus and Internet Security both mark up dangerous links in search results and on social networking pages. They also include a tool to tune your Facebook privacy settings. Trend Micro relies on the built-in Windows Firewall to block incoming threats, simply adding a Firewall Booster for additional firewall protection.

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