The Bottom Line
Trend Micro pulled out all the stops with their latest offering. Building on its solid antivirus capabilities, PC-cillin 2004 offers spam and spyware protection, wireless device protection, customizable firewall, privacy data protection, url filtering, and a year's free tech support via a toll-free number.
Pros
- Spyware and adware protection is included
- Scan all files really does mean scan all files
- Robust spam protection is built-in
Cons
- The name is too long :-)
Description
- Robust spam protection includes whitelist, blacklist, and heuristics
- Privacy data protection prevents specified information from ever leaving the system
- URL filtering can be specified to allow or disallow specific websites
- Customizable firewall rules ideal for home and small business needs
- Includes email protection for AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts
- Antivirus protection for PDAs and wireless firewall rules protect roamers
- Realtime spyware and adware protection prevents Internet parasites before they impact
Guide Review - PC-cillin Internet Security 2004
Installation is fast and straightforward, with minimal dialog and no confusing choices required on the part of the user. However, Trend has built-in plenty of options for pros who want to tinker. In addition to the wide range of protection noted above, PC-cillin Internet Security 2004 also includes all the standard fare such as on-demand and on-access scanning, automatic updates, POP3/SMTP email scanning, quarantine, and a host of other features all packaged in a single console. Ease-of-use and flexibility seem to be the hallmark of this console, with an interface that is very pleasing, well laid out, and extremely intuitive. Trend Micro also provides one year of free phone support via an equally toll-free number. For the price of a single antivirus product, Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet Security 2004 offers protection against viruses, spam, spyware, adware, intrusions, credit card theft and it includes a full firewall, features for parental control, and virus protection for mobile device users.
Features are fully customizable. For example, their spam filtering includes a blacklist maintained and updated by Trend Micro, a user-configurable whitelist to allow friends and family to get through, and heuristics to dynamically stop unwanted email.
For a complete description of Trend's PC-cillin Internet Security 2004, be sure to read the full review.
