Trend Micro Titanium AntiVirus Plus 2013

Strong, fast and easy-to-use security--Trend Micro Titanium provides essential protection so you can email and surf the web hassle free. Titanium uses cloud technology to proactively stop viruses and spyware before they reach your computer, so it won't slow you down. It's the same technology we use to protect some of the world's biggest businesses, now available to you.

Real-time updates keep your computer protected from the latest online threats. Using less than half the disk space and memory of traditional security products, Titanium is light on your system resources so your computer runs faster. It's built to be easy-to-use and understand with simple screens and reports, and won't pester you with alerts and pop-ups.

What's new in this version: Easy-to-use & essential threat protection

• Improved: Protects you from viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans, phishing, botnets, rootkits, fake AV
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Social network safety

• Expanded: Indicates dangerous links on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, MySpace, Sina Weibo, and Mixi
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• New: Identifies settings that may leave your personal information vulnerable using the new Facebook Privacy Scanner feature

Platform protection

Features and support
We mentioned that Titanium 2013 juggles all of its features around. What does that actually mean?

The short version is that even the entry-level Titanium AntiVirus Plus 2013 has the same core security features as its most feature-packed sibling, the $60 more expensive Titanium Premium Security. No matter which Titanium suite you get, you're getting protection against viruses, spyware, spam, and phishing. They all come with Titanium's Safe Surfing feature, which guards against drive-by malware; Safe Searching search results ranking courtesy a browser add-on for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome; a Facebook privacy scanner; and social networking protection including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, MySpace (yes, MySpace), Weibo, and Mixi.

These are solid features that will keep you safe, and putting them all in AntiVirus Plus makes it one of the most robust basic suites around and an excellent deal.

At the higher subscription levels, you'll get more features and more device support. Antivirus Plus works only on one computer. Titanium Internet Security 2013 will work on three computers, and includes parental controls, a system tuner, data theft prevention, and a secure file shredder.

Titanium Maximum Security 2013 offers all of the above, as well as the Trend Micro Online Guardian social monitoring service, Trend Micro's password management service, Trend Micro Vault for securing files on your local hard drives, and 5 GB with the company's SafeSync cloud storage. It also features a change in the license, so that Titanium Maximum Security will work on any combination of Windows, Android, and Mac, up to three devices. The new Trend Micro Premium Security 2013 is identical to Maximum Security in terms of features, but it comes with 25GB of SafeSync storage, and will work on up to five devices.

More and more security suites are approaching their features as services, so while Trend Micro's approach here is welcome, it feels a bit thin when compared with Norton's 10-device limitation.

Conclusion
Trend Micro is taking another big risk by making all its core security features available in its basic Antivirus Plus suite, but it's a risk the company has to take. The consumer security field grows ever-more competitive, and the free suites -- especially Microsoft Security Essentials -- are gobbling up newer computers.

The appeal of Titanium is solid security numbers backed by low system impact. If you want to pay for your computer security, Trend Micro Titanium 2013 and especially Antivirus Plus are excellent bets to place.

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