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Software Review Trend Micro Maximum Security vs ESET Smart Premium
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@Khushal thanks for posting this: I like both these AVs, but at +34 min doubt I'll watch, can someone who did provide short summary: I'm currently running each it its own win10_VM. I've got Eset Ultimate! -- I assume Eset did better based on @nickstar1 comment. Both run very well for me.
@simmerskool start the video at ~ 16:50, and it will pretty much tell you what you need to know. Trend Micro is on the left, and ESET is on the right.
TM didn't do very well in this test. And I wish it would do better as I generally liked it. But as with some of Tridents comments and TM tests, it needs some improvement.
TM didn't do very well in this test. And I wish it would do better as I generally liked it. But as with some of Tridents comments and TM tests, it needs some improvement.
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ESET is a better product all round. Multiple AV tests show this, multiple user reports show this. Their software, signatures, and firewall/heuristics are better. Not sure this is news?
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I want Trend Micro to be a better underdog. There are few competitive antivirus companies left whose software I'm inclined to personally use.
I agree there needs to be competition otherwise the industry will stall. Actually I think it's already stalled in a way. As time goes on security software & services are dying or going strict enterprise only hoping to be bought out for a large payday. It's all too common in cyber security sadly. And the sad thing is can you blame people for wanting a hefty payday? I can't. I wish I had one right now
I think others have already explained in brief what was the conclusion. It was a big L for Trend Micro. ESET performed as expected.
I want it too. But i don't think it can be even an underdog when it can't prevent host file modifications in 2025 (plus can't detect it in its scans.)
I demonstrated a week or two ago about the fact that a zero day vidar 2.0 aka stealerc sample managed to steal with trend micro unable to prevent it.
Currently I have K7 but I want to try Trend Micro
for 30days. Hope TM doing good.
for 30days. Hope TM doing good.
Point it to AI and ask for summary.
Edit: here you go
Here is a summary of the video "Trend Micro Maximum Security vs ESET Smart Premium" ():
This video compares the effectiveness of Trend Micro Maximum Security and ESET Smart Security Premium by subjecting them to a series of malware and web security tests in virtual machines.
Test Setup:
* Products: Trend Micro Maximum Security (set to "hyper sensitive" [00:40]) and ESET Smart Security Premium (set to "aggressive" with full scanning [01:31, 03:21]).
* Samples: Each virtual machine is exposed to 725 malware samples, which include zip files, applications, and scripts [04:12].
* VMs: The test starts with clean virtual machines, and both security products are fully updated [04:04, 05:03].
Test 1: Website Security
* This test involved opening numerous malicious and phishing websites [04:56].
* Result: ESET was declared the winner. It blocked the vast majority of malicious sites from opening, whereas Trend Micro allowed several to open [07:38, 08:16]. Both products successfully blocked malicious files that attempted to download [07:46].
Test 2: Malware Execution
* The 725 malware samples were executed on both systems [08:29].
* Resource Usage: During the test, Trend Micro was observed to be more CPU-intensive, while ESET was more disk-intensive [10:18].
* Initial Impact: The Trend Micro virtual machine became extremely slow, buggy, and unresponsive [15:50, 17:09]. The ESET machine remained responsive, though a few unwanted programs were installed [17:17, 18:40].
Test 3: Post-Execution Scans
* After a reboot, full system scans were run by each product, followed by scans from multiple third-party tools (Hitman Pro, Misoft, NPE, and Malwarebytes) to assess the remaining damage [19:09, 24:08].
* Trend Micro: The system was heavily compromised.
* Its own scan left 256 samples [22:12].
* Third-party scanners found a high number of issues (e.g., 368 from Misoft, 63 from Malwarebytes) [26:08, 27:49].
* The hosts file was hijacked, blocking access to security websites [28:16].
* Numerous persistent threats, scheduled tasks, and registry modifications were left behind [28:22, 29:26].
* ESET: The system was significantly cleaner.
* Its scan left only 38 samples [22:12].
* Third-party scanners found very few issues (e.g., 21 from Misoft, 5 from Malwarebytes), mostly isolated to temporary files or a single backdoor program [26:40, 32:41].
* The hosts file was not tampered with, and the system had no weird startup items [31:02].
Conclusion [31:40]
ESET Smart Security Premium was declared the "clear winner." It performed better in web protection and far better in malware protection, leaving the system stable and with only minor, easily removable infections. The Trend Micro system was severely compromised, unstable, and would require extensive, and likely incomplete, cleanup efforts [32:08].
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To be fairly honest, I have discovered a lot of issues with Trend over the years:
-Stealers not blocked at all
-Malware not cleaned well enough
-Web classification system slapping safe verdicts on malicious sites involved with malware distribution. There are other weaknesses there which for ethical reasons I will not discuss publicly
-Behavioural blocking rules not created in a timely manner, generic detections and heuristics not created for malware families for months
-Detections cleaned for malware that still causes damage. Even though the C&C is dead, instability was caused by malware injecting in explorer. On VT the file was detected by Trend till I rescanned. At this point the detection disappeared and it wasn’t detected by the product either.
-Various other issues, some of which were fixed after my reports. Amongst them was a complete blindness to any signed malware, which Trend Micro confirmed.
At one point Trend Micro improved which I reported here on this forum. However, it seems that once again it has gone downhill just shortly after the improvements were noted
Yes, the UI is premium and professional but in my opinion this doesn’t compensate for everything else.
McAfee takes the same concepts Trend Micro is using but without all the flaws. Eset is also a better product than Trend.
I have tested version 17.9 for a week against different attacks and samples and to be honest I am really disappointed. I realy like their enterprise product (ApexOne and VisionOne productline) and their approach to detect threats. So I hoped there updated the home version too. Alas I do not see great progress. The engine is version 25 and some other components have a higher build number but the detection rate is not improved. To bad. I realy like the company and I hope they can improve the product in the future.
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Honestly, I couldn't care less for Trend. Their privacy policy is hot garbage as demonstrated by AV Comparatives "Data transmission of consumer security products" test. Most other products suck too, but at least they manage to do something right.
Thank you for that reminder, I had forgotten about that one.
AV-Comparatives Thread 'Data transmission in consumer security products'
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