App Review Trend Micro Maximum Security 2025

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Shadowra

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Trend Micro is a well-known Japanese IT security company.
Relatively widely used in companies and schools, it was one of the first to bet on the 100% Cloud in 2011, switching its software from PC-Cillin to Titanium products (recently modified).

For 2025 as in other years, Trend is keeping to this philosophy of betting everything on the Cloud, but strengthening its protections against unknown scripts and threats, while offering a product totally suited to novices.
Let's take a look at all this together.



Interface :

Like every year, Trend Micro arrives with the same interface.
Even though it's still clear, elegant and customizable (which I've done ^^ ), I would have appreciated a little change, as this interface has been around for quite a long time.
The suite remains fairly light on the system

Web protection: 10/10
All links are blocked by Trend

Fake crack : 1/1
Blocked

Malware Pack : Remaining 31 files out of 86.
The anti-malware engine is improving, but remains fairly average.
Trend, on the other hand, has greatly improved its proactive defenses!
In the test, Trend defends itself correctly against malware and scripts. It even managed to recognize a few malicious schemes (a RAT attempted to inject MSBuilder.exe, which Trend blocked).
But all is not perfect: traces are present, and malware remains active in memory.

Final scan :
Trend : 0
KVRT : 11 (Infection in memory)
NPE : 7

Final opinion:

Trend Micro remains a highly versatile and effective solution.
Its major strength is clearly its Cloud network, which is excellent, as is its ability to block malicious behavior.
Despite some residual infections and active malware in memory, Trend protected us well against the traps I set for it.
A little more effort on the antimalware scan is required!
Trend Micro remains a good solution to protect you, and is recommendable.

@Claudio66 request
 

Trident

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They’ve definitely improved, they seem to be collecting files from users automatically now and it looks like the memory scan from corporate products has been implemented in home versions. It is part of the VSAPI.

Sometimes, the standard scan would detect nothing, but upon executing, it will produce standard detection.

Sometimes, the standard scan would detect minutes after.

So definitely Trend Micro has strengthened their protection a lot.

I tested it in Hypersensitive mode.
 

Claudio66

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Apr 9, 2022
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Trend Micro is a well-known Japanese IT security company.
Relatively widely used in companies and schools, it was one of the first to bet on the 100% Cloud in 2011, switching its software from PC-Cillin to Titanium products (recently modified).

For 2025 as in other years, Trend is keeping to this philosophy of betting everything on the Cloud, but strengthening its protections against unknown scripts and threats, while offering a product totally suited to novices.
Let's take a look at all this together.



Interface :

Like every year, Trend Micro arrives with the same interface.
Even though it's still clear, elegant and customizable (which I've done ^^ ), I would have appreciated a little change, as this interface has been around for quite a long time.
The suite remains fairly light on the system

Web protection: 10/10
All links are blocked by Trend

Fake crack : 1/1
Blocked

Malware Pack : Remaining 31 files out of 86.
The anti-malware engine is improving, but remains fairly average.
Trend, on the other hand, has greatly improved its proactive defenses!
In the test, Trend defends itself correctly against malware and scripts. It even managed to recognize a few malicious schemes (a RAT attempted to inject MSBuilder.exe, which Trend blocked).
But all is not perfect: traces are present, and malware remains active in memory.

Final scan :
Trend : 0
KVRT : 11 (Infection in memory)
NPE : 7

Final opinion:

Trend Micro remains a highly versatile and effective solution.
Its major strength is clearly its Cloud network, which is excellent, as is its ability to block malicious behavior.
Despite some residual infections and active malware in memory, Trend protected us well against the traps I set for it.
A little more effort on the antimalware scan is required!
Trend Micro remains a good solution to protect you, and is recommendable.

@Claudio66 request

Thank you Shadowra !!
For an average user, I think Trend Micro is a good solution. On this forum Trend Micro is not much considered but given value for money I will renew the license for two computers I have in use.
 

Trident

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Thank you Shadowra !!
For an average user, I think Trend Micro is a good solution. On this forum Trend Micro is not much considered but given value for money I will renew the license for two computers I have in use.
The protection is definitely above average and yeah, for a home user more than enough. The new faster classification seems to be related to this:

 

BigWrench

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Great review @Shadowra ✌️
Have it running on my 2 main pc’s and 3 old laptops. Very, VERY lite and effective. Simple and fast. Here’s a 6 month free trial that is still working. Make sure to let it update after installation. Thanks again ✌️

 

TuxTalk

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The protection is definitely above average and yeah, for a home user more than enough. The new faster classification seems to be related to this:

Hey @Trident welcome back, how are you m8.
 

anirbandutta01

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Jun 18, 2022
513
Trend Micro is a well-known Japanese IT security company.
Relatively widely used in companies and schools, it was one of the first to bet on the 100% Cloud in 2011, switching its software from PC-Cillin to Titanium products (recently modified).

For 2025 as in other years, Trend is keeping to this philosophy of betting everything on the Cloud, but strengthening its protections against unknown scripts and threats, while offering a product totally suited to novices.
Let's take a look at all this together.



Interface :

Like every year, Trend Micro arrives with the same interface.
Even though it's still clear, elegant and customizable (which I've done ^^ ), I would have appreciated a little change, as this interface has been around for quite a long time.
The suite remains fairly light on the system

Web protection: 10/10
All links are blocked by Trend

Fake crack : 1/1
Blocked

Malware Pack : Remaining 31 files out of 86.
The anti-malware engine is improving, but remains fairly average.
Trend, on the other hand, has greatly improved its proactive defenses!
In the test, Trend defends itself correctly against malware and scripts. It even managed to recognize a few malicious schemes (a RAT attempted to inject MSBuilder.exe, which Trend blocked).
But all is not perfect: traces are present, and malware remains active in memory.

Final scan :
Trend : 0
KVRT : 11 (Infection in memory)
NPE : 7

Final opinion:

Trend Micro remains a highly versatile and effective solution.
Its major strength is clearly its Cloud network, which is excellent, as is its ability to block malicious behavior.
Despite some residual infections and active malware in memory, Trend protected us well against the traps I set for it.
A little more effort on the antimalware scan is required!
Trend Micro remains a good solution to protect you, and is recommendable.

@Claudio66 request

Thank you @Shadowra for your test.
 

BJ Security

Level 1
Apr 4, 2025
14
Trend Micro is a well-known Japanese IT security company.
Relatively widely used in companies and schools, it was one of the first to bet on the 100% Cloud in 2011, switching its software from PC-Cillin to Titanium products (recently modified).

For 2025 as in other years, Trend is keeping to this philosophy of betting everything on the Cloud, but strengthening its protections against unknown scripts and threats, while offering a product totally suited to novices.
Let's take a look at all this together.



Interface :

Like every year, Trend Micro arrives with the same interface.
Even though it's still clear, elegant and customizable (which I've done ^^ ), I would have appreciated a little change, as this interface has been around for quite a long time.
The suite remains fairly light on the system

Web protection: 10/10
All links are blocked by Trend

Fake crack : 1/1
Blocked

Malware Pack : Remaining 31 files out of 86.
The anti-malware engine is improving, but remains fairly average.
Trend, on the other hand, has greatly improved its proactive defenses!
In the test, Trend defends itself correctly against malware and scripts. It even managed to recognize a few malicious schemes (a RAT attempted to inject MSBuilder.exe, which Trend blocked).
But all is not perfect: traces are present, and malware remains active in memory.

Final scan :
Trend : 0
KVRT : 11 (Infection in memory)
NPE : 7

Final opinion:

Trend Micro remains a highly versatile and effective solution.
Its major strength is clearly its Cloud network, which is excellent, as is its ability to block malicious behavior.
Despite some residual infections and active malware in memory, Trend protected us well against the traps I set for it.
A little more effort on the antimalware scan is required!
Trend Micro remains a good solution to protect you, and is recommendable.

@Claudio66 request

Thank you Shadowra for testing Trend Micro Maximum Security in 2025. Since Trend Micro improved this from the previous generation.

I've watched it -- from Odysee

In my opinion, it seems Trend Micro Maximum Security does a pretty good job preventing malwares, online threats, and archive, but it tends to create as many false positives which can be annoying for some users. Overall, for home users, it's a good antivirus in 2025, but it is a "Third-party antivirus", so I will expect Trend Micro to be safe to use.
 

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