Question Is Trend Micro antivirus popular?

[MegenM]

I see that their antivirus for Mac OS is more popular.
Also see some recent reviews on the antivirus on Tomsguide and US News Report.

I haven't used the program. Anyone who is using can please share their opinion on the antivirus program.

 

[Trident]

I can't comment on its popularity and market share but I tried it on my Mac and it performed well.
There were 2 processes not optimised for M1, the product overall supports M1 natively.

It includes Anti-virus, web blocking and anti-ransomware (folder shield).

There is also an easy way to uninstall it though the diagnostic toolkit, something which is missing from some products.

 

[military]

@Shadowra , interested in your opinion about this antivirus. Would you like to share?

 

[Bumblebee Uncle]

If I remember correctly (might be completely wrong on this as I have no idea how the latest version fares), trend micro did not have ability to ask the user what to do with an infected file. It automatically deletes it (not quarantines but deletes it) and there is no way in settings to change this or get user prompts. This was a few years back at least.

Is this still the case? Perhaps @Shadowra knows this?

 

[Shadowra]

If I remember correctly (might be completely wrong on this as I have no idea how the latest version fares), trend micro did not have ability to ask the user what to do with an infected file. It automatically deletes it (not quarantines but deletes it) and there is no way in settings to change this or get user prompts. This was a few years back at least.

Is this still the case? Perhaps @Shadowra knows this?

Yep :/

 

[Shadowra]

@Shadowra , interested in your opinion about this antivirus. Would you like to share?

Trendmicro is an excellent antivirus program that I have always enjoyed testing.
Its big strength is its web protection because it blocks threats at the source (so if you publish another malware on the site or if you change your server, it will be directly blocked)
Its Behavior Blocker is also excellent, except on Batch scripts where I already managed to bypass Trend.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

except on Batch scripts where I already managed to bypass Trend.

Even if you set it to hypersensitive mode?

 

[Anthony Qian]

Trend Micro was unsuccessful in an APT test done by a Chinese tester, with a focus on Cobalt Strike, while other reputable antivirus software programs (including K., ESET, Norton, F-S, Avira, and BD) succeeded.

Spoiler

 

[Shadowra]

Even if you set it to hypersensitive mode?

yep

 

[likeastar20]

Trend Micro was unsuccessful in an APT test done by a Chinese tester, with a focus on Cobalt Strike, while other reputable antivirus software programs (including K., ESET, Norton, F-S, Avira, and BD) succeeded.

Spoiler

View attachment 272748

Can you rank them in order?

 

[Anthony Qian]

Can you rank them in order?

Ten samples were used in this test.

The test will perform the following actions:

1. Download the payload to the local machine
2. Launch the payload
3. The sample establishes a c2 connection (target server is a public cloud server)
4. The target machine comes online
5. The control side issues a command for a screenshot
6. The control side issues a command to retrieve a txt file from the C drive (simulating data theft).

For an AV product to be considered approved, it must detect or block all of these malicious samples or behaviors. This is because Cobalt Strike is not novel and the samples are not difficult to detect.

10/10 (Success): WV, Kaspersky, Avast, F-S, Norton, Bitdefeder, Avira, ESET, G-Data, and Dr Web.
9/10: Huorong, Malwarebytes, Emsisoft, Comodo, and Trendmicro.
8/10: Webroot, and Adaware.
7/10: Qihoo, and McAfee.
6/10: Microsoft.
...
1/10: Panda, and Zemana
0/10: Watchdog, Immunet, Bkav, and Zillya.

 

[show-Zi]

According to an article I saw the other day, Trend Micro has the largest market share in Japan, followed by Norton and McAfee. This is expected to be due to the fact that the distributors sell the software as a set with the PC.

I sometimes hear about problems with the Business Edition, but the Home Edition does not seem to have a bad reputation. Personally, when I tried it in the past, it was so heavy that it traumatized me and I have no desire to use it. Perhaps it is fixed now, though.

 

[cruelsister]

Trend Micro in the past would insist on UAC being set at default. If memory serves if the user had UAC either disabled or set at MAX upon reboot UAC would be reset to default level. Is this still the case?