Eh... | Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 3-User [OLD VERSION]

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	• Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 3-User [OLD VERSION] Windows \| Trend Micro, 2007 average customer review:based on 118 reviews view larger image
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Great multifunction tool, with some real annoyances

Hi, I'm no expert on virus protection or firewalls, but I'm a long-time user of Pc-Cillin. I saw so many one-star and five-star reviews of the product, I thought I'd offer some middle ground. First of all, I was very happy with Trend-Micro-I-S 2006. Fast, snappy, functional with frequent non-intrusive updates. I skipped 2007 because of all the horror stories about slowdowns and memory problems. Finally upgraded to 2008 at renewal time. Did have some install problems, but not huge. Biggest complaint, I had carefully a carefully constructed firewall exception list and it just threw it away, leaving me to either greatly lower my firewall security or recreate the list, which I eventually did. I'm now in everyday mode on two computers. Only major annoyances are false positives saying good programs have trojans, with little info as to what to do. I tell it to ignore them.
2008 is certainly more cumbersome then 2006, which was exceptionally light, but I haven't noticed it being too bad - still seems much better to me than Norton or Symantec. I only use Virus Protection, Firewall, & wireless network monitoring, so can't comment on the other features.
Pet peeve with the product is that on my 1600x1200 resolution screen, the firewall logs are in a fixed window with columns that are so squished the online logs are virtually unreadable. Support's solution is to export them and then read in Excel, but this is a real pain when I just want to quickly check to make sure something wrong didn't get caught by the firewall. It's been a problem through several versions, and I can't figure out why they can't improve their windowing to match every other Windows pc software on the planet.
On the business practices front, if you buy the 3-pc version, at least on the old 2006, then renewal subroutines made you think you had to purchase separate new renewals - which I did. I finally ended up calling the company about this and they corrected the problem and gave me free rights to 2011, so I'm relatively content.

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Eh...

This product is alright I suppose... My Internet connection is Dial-Up so when it's updating it takes forever; as in HOURS. It protects my computer well though. I've had a few problems with it but the service people did a fine job helping me out. Honestly, if I had found another security program that was reviewed higher and was faster, I'd have taken it instead...

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