Titanium internet security for mac reviews

Social network privacy scan. Includes ransomware protection, webcam privacy, and parental control. Parental control foiled by secure anonymizing proxy. Very poor phishing protection score. Webcam privacy needs work. Social network privacy not fully functional. Licensing model not practical for all-Mac households.

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac review: Solid malware prevention with no frills

Two major independent testing labs certify Trend Micro's ability to fight malware on your Mac. It comes with a boatload of bonus features, but some of those need work. There's no question that it's easier for a malware coder to find cracks in the security of Windows or Android than to penetrate macOS, but that doesn't mean that Macs are immune to ransomware and other types of malware. To fully secure your macOS devices, you need antivirus protection. 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 quite limited.

As with its Windows antivirus, Trend Micro doesn't directly offer a multi-license subscription for Mac antivirus.

View All 10 Photos in Gallery. As with many competitors, Trend Micro's minimum supported operating system increases steadily, as new macOS editions come out. At present, it supports macOS Sierra Most Mac users keep their OS up to date, so this shouldn't be a problem. Kaspersky and Norton are among the other Mac antivirus tools that need Sierra or better. You can enter a product key during installation, or run Trend Micro as a free trial. 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. A big green checkmark in Trend Micro's main window lets you know that security is fine. If any important features are turned off, the display changes to an orange exclamation mark.

Don't fret; just click Fix Now to get back to green. You'll find simple switches to turn on and off several major features, including web protection, real-time scanning, and new since my last review camera and microphone protection. It does offer buttons to launch a scan or check for updates. A menu of icons down the left side lets you dig into the various security layers Trend Micro offers. Independent antivirus testing labs around the world regularly put a collection of popular antivirus tools to the test and report their findings to the public.

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

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On Windows, I also use my hand-crafted testing tools. These don't work on a Mac, so lab results are even more important. When I first rounded up Mac antivirus utilities, each reviewed product had results from at least one lab. The labs choose and shuffle their test sets, though. As you can see in the chart below, at present barely half of the products come with lab results, with the rest having vanished from the latest tests.

Trend Micro bucks this trend, though. Now it has top marks from both. As in their Windows-focused evaluations, the testers at AV-Test rate products on three distinct criteria, assigning up to six points for each. 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 tarring valid programs or websites as malicious. And keeping a light touch on system resources is the way to get a top Performance score. Reports from AV-Comparatives indicate which products achieved certification, along with the percentage of macOS malware caught. All the tested products took certification. Trend Micro, along with several others, managed a perfect percent score. Many Mac-centric antivirus tools also attempt to detect and eliminate Windows malware. Sure, these nasties can't infect a Mac, but they might make their way to a PC on your network.

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Trend Micro also wiped out percent of the Windows malware samples. As far as lab results go, Trend Micro is a top product. Clicking Scan Now from the main window launches what the antivirus calls a Smart Scan, which checks for active malware in memory and scours system areas often affected by malware. This scan took just two minutes on the MacBook Air I use for testing. Finishing a quick scan in just a couple minutes is typical for the Mac antivirus products I've tested.

ESET Cyber Security for Mac is an outlier, needing 51 minutes; clearly this product's definition of a quick scan is different. I always advise running a full scan immediately after installing antivirus, regardless of the platform. You want to be sure there's nothing nasty lurking in the system, left over from its vulnerable no-antivirus state. Trend Micro finished its full scan in 10 minutes, quite a bit below the current average of 25 minutes. With any existing malware cleared by a full scan, you should be able to rely on real-time protection to foil any new attacks.

Just as a backup, Trend Micro schedules a monthly quick scan. You can change that to a full scan if you like, or switch to a daily or weekly scan. On the flip side, Bitdefender, Kaspersky, and Sophos Home Premium for Mac don't bother with scan scheduling at all—of course, you can manually launch a scan any time you want. Trend Micro jumped on the case, quickly identifying and eliminating many of the samples.

The scans are fast and it marks potential unsafe web sites visually for quick recognition.

Seems to be very extensive user choices for customizing but the standard defaults work for me. I had Macafee before this but this seems a step up in speed and user friendliness. Thought I'd never need security software on my Mac, but found out differently when I was infected with a Trojan. Trend Micro has since caught several bad web sites and warned me, and one other email.

Now have a new MacBook Air, with no CD drive, so will have to go to Trend's website from now on and download it each year -- cheaper than renewing.

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