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Trend Micro to Scan Hotmail E-mail

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

December 20, 2004, 2:27 PM

Antivirus company Trend Micro announced that it will provide antivirus scanning for Hotmail's 183 million plus customers starting Monday. MSN Hotmail had previously used McAfee VirusScan, and gave no official reason for such an abrupt switch other than "to expand the e-mail protection of our Hotmail customers."

The Hotmail deal will likely give Trend Micro much higher visibility in the crowded field of antivirus software. "Our relationship with MSN Hotmail gives Trend Micro a tremendous opportunity to help protect millions of users with the same virus protection that we have been providing to our customers around the world for many years," Chang said.

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By LostProphet

posted Dec 20, 2004 - 3:18 PM

Now hotmail can be even slower! trend micro and symantec both are lously antivirus clients. although trend does have less issues than symantec's program. those are good for home use or small companies, larger companies should look someone like sophos. They are LAN based anivirus only and one great product

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By Pipewrench

posted Dec 20, 2004 - 9:27 PM

LOL

Trend and Symantec are the best for corporate email and networks. McAfee really stinks at everything. They have for the last 4 years. TrendMicro makes some of the best Exchange server scanning tools around. Anyone who thinks otherwise obviously doesn't work in a large environment. :-) I'm thankful that MS dropped McAfee.

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By LostProphet

posted Dec 21, 2004 - 10:27 AM

If I have to choose one trend is better. symantec just loads to slow and does not find enough. although I have had the chance to work extensively with symantecs spam "server" (if you want to call it that.) Its very flexable in allowing you to setup spam to flow thought to different uses or exchange servers so the local user can decide on what is spam and whats not.

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By bourgeoisdude

posted Dec 20, 2004 - 4:52 PM

Actually my experience with trend micro has been the best of any AV client. They use less memory than most AV software (true, sophos uses less mem than trend), and they have the best detection. At least it beats Symantec and Mcafee, which don't even see IMISERV trojans, but I think trend micro is the best balance between detection rate and performance, other than AVG free (which can't be used on networks).

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By jbaltz69

edited Dec 20, 2004 - 5:32 PM

I use Trend Micro OfficeScan at my company and we have about 10,000 users and we have never had one problem with. Trend is the best AV company in the world at the moment in my eyes. McAfee and Symantec are much slower to load the their detection rates are far below Trend as well.

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By devilofadawg

edited Dec 20, 2004 - 7:13 PM

Have tried trend micro twice. Memory Hog and wastes resources. All the major scanners do the same thing. Ive been using Zone Alarm Security Suite, and have found its by far the best bang for the resource usage, and comes with antispam and IM hacker protection.

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By bourgeoisdude

edited Dec 21, 2004 - 12:02 PM

Actually the 2 biggest memory hogs are symantec and, by far the absolute slowest, bulkiest rsource hog of all is Panda. At least with all that processor utilization panda does actually detect and clean all the viruses I've thrown at it, though, wile Mcafee, Symantec, and even Sophos have not.

I recently tested some AV products for detection rate myself, using the most up-to-date detections available. I'm sure none of these AV is perfect, but the viruses I chose are very common viruses that are rarely mentioned, like TROJ_AJENT variants, agobots, and the old "funlove" virus. Norton COORPORATE EDITION WITH ALL THE UPDATES, suprisingly missed 3, more than any other AV I tested. Mcafee missed one of the old but common IMISERV varients, as did Symantec and sophos. AVG, Trend, Panda, and surprisingly (at least surprising to me) Kaspersky as well, found all the viruses I could throw at them.