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Trend Micro's updates for 2011 bring a substantially overhauled suite, from the name down to its detection engine. The new version brings a new interface, new cloud-based detection engine, and new features that, on whole, are changes as impressive as those that Norton has gone through the past few years.

Installation:
The new Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus+ 2011 sports a rapid-fire installation. Once you've completed downloading the installer, the entire process is over in less than a minute. There's one screen where you're asked to fill in an e-mail address before you can run Titanium Internet Security, but that's the extent of the registration hoops that are required.
Notably, Trend Micro doesn't call any attention to its behavioral detection network, which the company has named Aegis. Although Trend Micro introduced Aegis in 2007, making it one of the first available, most companies still give users the option during installation to opt-out of contributing data to the anonymous networks while allowing you the networks' benefits. Unless it was a glitch, that's not offered here in the installation. (You can later disable the anonymous contribution of your data in the Settings menu, under Other Settings and Smart Protection Network.)
Interface
A different, minimalistic interface is what you'll find as the outward face of Trend Micro's Titanium security suites in 2011. Frankly, it's the easiest-to-use security suite interface we've encountered so far this year. The top quarter is taken up by a large icon and bar declaring your security status, and below it are three major security fields and a registration status indicator.
Click the boldface name of one to open a drop-down revealing more information, such as number and type of threats stopped under Security Summary. This perhaps could be phrased better, since if no threats have been detected on your computer, then you will see that, "0 threats have been stopped." Accurate, yes, but slightly misleading, too.
The Support link lives in the upper right corner of the interface, marked by a text link and a boat's lifesaver ring. At the bottom of the interface live a one-click scan-on-demand button to initiate a Quick Scan, a drop-down arrow to change scans, a Settings icon, and a Security Report button for jumping to a screen that collects into charts and graphs recent threat detection, system performance, and parental control notifications.
Features and support
The big new feature this year is that Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus+ 2011 has removed the necessity to update your virus definition files because, like Google Chrome, it automatically updates. Unlike Chrome, you don't have to shut it down first. This is generally a good idea, in the sense that users won't have to remember to schedule scans and updates. This can become problematic, to put it diplomatically, when the wrong files get identified as threats. This happened to McAfee earlier in 2010, and that one bad virus definition left havoc in its wake. Granted, those mistakes are rare, and the scope of McAfee's mistake was even more unusual, but they do happen.
The auto-updates in Titanium theoretically lead to a higher level of security that's more responsive, too. The behavioral detection approach has worked well for Norton, Panda, and Microsoft. There's no doubt that moving detection to the cloud makes the program run with less interference in your system. However, Trend Micro's Aegis system is largely untested in this category.
All that's not to say that you can't schedule scans in Titanium, which you can do from Virus and Spyware Controls panel under Settings. Under that same tab, you can configure how Titanium handles various other security protocol.
Along with antivirus, anti-malware, and malicious link protection, Titanium Antivirus+ protects your installed applications from being altered without your permission, optimizes the Windows firewall, and provides spam guards. There's also parental controls. Compared with its bigger sibling Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2011, it lacks the identity guards for protecting credit card numbers and passwords, the Department of Defense-standard file shredder, the system tuner, Wi-Fi verification, the 10GB of online backup and syncing, and the Trend Micro Vault, which is a remote file lock that will seal off files when you tell it to. It's also missing the firewall optimization, parental controls, and image and e-mail spam blocking. One key protection feature isn't here: the ability to prevent malware from tampering with your installed programs.
Trend Micro comes with a toolbar that auto-installs only in Firefox and Internet Explorer. This can be deactivated in the Settings window after you install, although it's a bit annoying that you can't turn it off before you install. Internet Explorer 9 beta indicates that running the toolbar slows down the browser start-up by 1 second. It also doesn't really contain much in the way of features, besides giving Titanium hooks into your browser so it can evaluate Web site search results.
There are some hang-ups with Titanium, though. For one thing, while the program is starting, users won't be able to access the interface, although you can when scanning. A more troublesome problem is that the suite doesn't really possess much in the way of virus and malware removal. It presupposes that it will block all threats that attempt to crack your system. As noted above, Trend Micro's HouseCall tool is the de facto post-infection threat killer, and it's Web-based. That may make some users skittish.
Performance
So, the big caveat is that much of the tech that Trend Micro's relying on is new and untested by independent efficacy tests, so it may be worth hedging bets against Trend Micro until third-party labs have had a chance to evaluate it.
CNET Labs' benchmarks showed that the suites backed up Trend Micro's claims of minimal system impact, in general. All three of the company's suite offerings this year, Titanium Maximum Security 2011, Titanium Internet Security 2011, and Titanium Antivirus+, barely touched the systems they were installed on when compared with competitors on the key benchmarks of computer start-up and scan time.
Maximum Security added only 2.29 seconds to computer boot time, and Internet Security and Antivirus+ followed closely behind with 2.5 seconds added and 3.62 seconds added, respectively. Scan times from all three suites were the fastest that we recorded, so far.