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<blockquote data-quote="Spartan" data-source="post: 1033124" data-attributes="member: 79347"><p>Trend Micro doesn't offer a trial for the Antivirus+ Security. When you specifically go to their site to download its trial, it still downloads Total Security so I bought a license to see how it is as the rating on AV-Comparatives was good.</p><p></p><p>First impression, after downloading the 200+ MB offline installer, one would think it somehow has recent definitions and the program itself is recent but nope. Upon installation, it took about 10 minutes to complete the first update then prompted me to reboot to install a program update. Not a big deal.</p><p></p><p>Then I was bombarded by notifications left and right. Install Chrome extension and Firefox extension (which I don't want, yet it keeps periodically asking to install them). Then you get update notifications, then random notifications here and there I lost track. Then another notification to turn on protected folders (docs, pics, music, etc) which I removed. It started getting on my nerves.</p><p></p><p>Then every time I watch a video in full screen, I get another notification that it went into mute mode, then another notification that I exited mute mode so I disabled mute mode altogether in settings.</p><p></p><p>The settings page is a joke, they are scattered around in different sections I had to look for 5 minutes to find where that mute mode is.</p><p></p><p>It is a light Antivirus in terms of system impact but with these kinds of annoying notifications, I would rather get infected than have to deal with Trend Micro's products again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spartan, post: 1033124, member: 79347"] Trend Micro doesn't offer a trial for the Antivirus+ Security. When you specifically go to their site to download its trial, it still downloads Total Security so I bought a license to see how it is as the rating on AV-Comparatives was good. First impression, after downloading the 200+ MB offline installer, one would think it somehow has recent definitions and the program itself is recent but nope. Upon installation, it took about 10 minutes to complete the first update then prompted me to reboot to install a program update. Not a big deal. Then I was bombarded by notifications left and right. Install Chrome extension and Firefox extension (which I don't want, yet it keeps periodically asking to install them). Then you get update notifications, then random notifications here and there I lost track. Then another notification to turn on protected folders (docs, pics, music, etc) which I removed. It started getting on my nerves. Then every time I watch a video in full screen, I get another notification that it went into mute mode, then another notification that I exited mute mode so I disabled mute mode altogether in settings. The settings page is a joke, they are scattered around in different sections I had to look for 5 minutes to find where that mute mode is. It is a light Antivirus in terms of system impact but with these kinds of annoying notifications, I would rather get infected than have to deal with Trend Micro's products again. [/QUOTE]
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