Trend Micro Antivirus Review Install A Security

Like Bitdefender, Vipre, and Symantec Norton Security Deluxe (for Mac), Trend Micro topped all three tests, earning a perfect 18 points.

Includes ransomware protection, webcam privacy, and parental control.

It comes with a boatload of bonus features, though some of those could use work.

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac gets you lab-certified protection against malware along with a substantial collection of bonus features.

Note, though, that the antivirus is the best part; some of the bonus features are rather limited.

Trend Micro can keep your Mac safe, but other apps are more generous.

For most of those, 59.99 per year gets you three licenses; Webroot charges less, at 49.95 for those three licenses.

Trend Micro Antivirus Review Install A Security

If you want to protect more than one Mac, you can pay 79.95 for a three-license Trend Micro Internet Security subscription that lets you install a security suite on Windows or this antivirus on macOS.

Trend Micro Maximum Security costs 10 more for five licenses that you can use on Windows, macOS, Android, or iOS.

At present, it supports macOS High Sierra (10.13) and later.

Most Mac users keep their OS up to date, so this shouldnt be a problem.

If for some reason (old hardware, perhaps) you must run an antique version of macOS, you might consider ClamXAV (for Mac) or ProtectWorks, which both extend support back to Snow Leopard (10.6), or Webroot, which supports Lion (10.7) or later.

As with most Mac antivirus tools, it needs your permission to install web protection for Safari.

After a quick antivirus update, the product is ready to start protecting your Mac.

If any important features are turned off, the display changes to an orange exclamation mark.

Youll find simple switches to turn on and off several major features, including web protection, real-time scanning, and camera and microphone protection.

A menu of icons down the left side lets you dig into the various security layers Trend Micro offers.

The Windows edition features an unusual round Scan button at the center, with icons at the top to access other feature areas.

I follow a reliable group of four such labs for my Windows reviews; two of them also test Mac-specific products.

These dont work on a Mac, so Mac-focused lab results are especially important.

As you can see in the chart below, at present a little over half of the products come with lab results, with the rest having vanished from the latest tests.

Trend Micro bucks this trend, though, with top scores from both AV-Test Institute and AV-Comparatives.

A high Protection score means the product defeated all (or almost all) the sample malware.

To get a good score for Usability, the product must avoid wrongly identifying valid programs or websites as malicious.

And keeping a light touch on system resources is the way to get a top Performance score.

Trend Micro Antivirus Review For Mac