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I picked up two copies of TrendMicro AV+AS 2008 yesterday for $5 each

VirtualLarry

No Lifer
Anyone know if they are any good to use? Norton works on a subscription basis, and even if you buy an out-of-date version, as long as it's still supported by updates, it will work for a year. Likewise with Webroot AV+AS.

Does anyone know if this is the case with TM, can I still use this software?
 
Well, I just tried installing it. It pops up a window saying that it is incompatible with this version of Windows, but allows you to continue with the install.

I found that strange, since this is XP SP3 w/IE7, and the box says it's compatible with XP Home, Professional, and Media Center, as well as Vista.

It still hasn't finished setup, though. It went through setup, then it says "now starting the security services", and just spins forever.

Edit: It finished spinning, apparently it was downloading updates, but it sure didn't indicate anything was going on. Finally got it installed correctly, seems to work, says my subscription expires in 2011.

I guess I got a deal after all.
 
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Ok OK Virtually Larry, you got something with a supposed retail value of more than $10.00 bucks for $10.00. But we still have to ask if its as good as a one of the really excellent freeware AV's.

Trend Micro is fairly good, but looking at AV ratings, its not good enough to have any top rankings.

If I tell you my used toilet paper is worth $1000, will you automatically assume you got a bargain if I sell it to you for $10.00?

But then again, Virtual Larry could have the last laugh, if Trend Micro protects him from some malware my AV lets through.

To some extent, we never know.
 
LOL. It was $5. Close enough to free for me. Some people just overanalyze everything. 😛

Edit: And unlike "free" antivirus solutions, there are no nag screens or popups. Thankfully.
 
LOL. It was $5. Close enough to free for me. Some people just overanalyze everything. 😛

Edit: And unlike "free" antivirus solutions, there are no nag screens or popups. Thankfully.


No nag screen on Avast 5 free version 😉 which is an excellent AV and very low on ram usage.

I did use Trend Micro years ago when I use to pay for my AV,however for $5 I guess you can't complain 🙂.
 
As far as I know, it auto-updated during installation to the newest version.

I'm having a little trouble using it. I ran into a trojaned site from a google search about overclocked Q9550s, and it gave me those dialog boxes about my system being infected by malware, and please click here for a scan. So I clicked (being fairly well protected, not by my AV but by a limited user account and SRP, on XP Pro SP3), and it brought up a web page that looked like my C: in Windows explorer, and it started faking the scan, and then it popped up a dialog box that looked like a windows security dialog box, but of course it wasn't, and then clicking anything on the dialog resulted in the fake av .exe file being attempted to download. At this point my AV popped up and said something. But it didn't give me any real options to click on, so I figured it was handling it automatically.

It recently, a few days later, popped up a dialog and had a log screen, which I reviewed.
It contained five entries. Here's what's strange - they are listed as "Ignore Success", and virus type "Cryp_Krap-9". I certainly didn't click anything to "ignore" them. I do remember seeing something about the AV being unable to delete them outright when they were encountered.

Oh, and to get out of the malware fake scanning, I just End-Task'ed the browser, and deleted my temp internet files.

But it's a little disconcering that the AV couldn't delete the malware file, and it then later claimed that I chose to ignore it, when I made no such decision.

As far as I know, though, this machine isn't infected at all, thanks to SRP and LUA.
 
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