Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 makes it easy to protect your home network, personal identity, and online activity. It guards against present viruses, spyware, and identity theft as well as the Web threats of tomorrow. Confidently e-mail, shop, bank, or share photos online, knowing your privacy and files are well protected. Features include: anti-virus, anti-spyware, e-mail safety scan, protection against rootkits, proactive intrusion blocking, anti-spam, two-way firewall, home network protection, Web site authentication, parental controls, and data theft prevention.

The new version now includes proactive intrusion blocking, anti-spam image filtering and maintains your own set of whitelisted websites.

Editor's review of Trend Micro Internet Security Preventive medicine

With Trend Micro Internet Security 2008, you need only to provide your e-mail address to activate the full function 30-day free trial.

Once installed, the protection provided by Trend Micro is good. The two-way firewall blocks Internet threats, while scanners remove viruses, spyware, and rootkits. The interface is clean and intuitive, with configuration settings accessible for more advanced users. The suite includes additional tools to identify legitimate Wi-Fi hot spots (Wi-Fi Advisor), parental controls, Internet Web protection, home network protection, and even a system tune-up diagnostic (System Tuner).

Trend Micro provides free telephone, e-mail, and chat technical support, which is important since the online technical support information for Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 is not that good. Not only does Trend Micro lack a Getting Started PDF, but there is no manual and far too few knowledge base articles. Removal is clean: we found no traces of Trend Micro Internet Security on our system after reboot.