Trend Micro Delivers Online Freedom With Smarter 2009 Consumer Security Suite

New 2009 advanced features designed to provide smarter and safer protection against online threat for families, children and busy professionals

KUALA LUMPUR – October 30 2008 – Trend Micro, Incorporated (TSE: 4704), a global leader in Internet content security launched its 2009 versions of its flagship consumer products in Kuala Lumpur today. Trend Micro™ AntiVirus, Trend Micro™ Internet Security and Trend Micro™ Internet Security Pro keep consumers' data and personal information secure from online threats by delivering smart security solutions that can respond and adapt to users’ needs. The products are powered by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network, a cloud-client security infrastructure that correlates Web and email threat data by using reputation technologies that compare threats against in-the-cloud threat databases.

"In this year's release, we focused on developing products that offer smarter protection against data-stealing threats, along with the smallest impact on computer resources. Customers will experience up to over 40 per cent lower memory usage and nearly 50 per cent faster boot-up time," said Eric Chong, Asia Pacific Marketing Director for the Consumer Business unit. "With the Smart Protection Network, Trend Micro offers our customers the strongest real-time protection against the latest Internet threats while enjoying online activities to the fullest."

“Trend Micro is constantly looking at new ways to help users address key online security issues. One example is by assisting parents in dealing with the rising challenge of protecting their children from the dangers that lurk online. The 2009 new and enhanced features help consumers get smart about Internet-usage,” Chong added.

Advanced Parental Controls With advanced parental controls, parents can better tailor controls for each family member. New functionalities include the ability to restrict the date and time each child can go on the Internet while blocking undesirable content with more than 20 categories of website filters to choose from. Parents also have the option to specify categories of information (such as home addresses, telephone numbers, passwords, etc.) they do not wish to be sent from a computer.

Enhanced Home Network Protection
The enhanced Home Network Protection enables users to manage security of multiple computers easily. Users can see and remotely manage other computers in their home network through a graphical home network map while blocking intruders from accessing their network.

Advance Warning
Trend Micro’s enhanced Web Threat Protection now warns users of malicious content received via email, IM and Web Pages. The email, IM and Webpage rating features provide colour coded alerts to advise users of potentially dangerous links and websites that they should avoid, even before they click on them.

In addition, the Security Activity Dashboard gives users a comprehensive and customisable snapshot of all the security activities on their computers through easy-to-use charts and graphs. By learning more about when and how their computers can be attacked, users can surf more securely and intelligently.

Uninterrupted Usage
With State Aware, users no longer get interruptions from scanning and pop-up during full screen mode activities such as watching a DVD, conducting a PowerPoint presentation or playing a computer game.

Trend Micro Mobile Security
For those who would like to extend Trend Micro protection to their smart phones, Trend Micro Internet Security Pro offers mobile security against viruses, SMS text message spam, malware attacks, data theft and service disruptions – especially useful for busy professionals on-the-go.

20GB Online CarboniteTM Backup
With 20GB* worth of CarboniteTM Online Backup, users now have an additional option of protecting their sensitive data.

Up to 20GB of Carbonite Online Backup per computer, for 12 months

Pricing & Availability for Malaysia
All products are currently available in stores and online at apac.trendmicro.com.The subscription prices for one year are:

Trend Micro Anti-Virus - RM48 (1 Year 1 User)
Trend Micro Internet Security - RM109 (1 Year 3 users)
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2009 - RM168 (1 Year 3 users)

For more information, please visit http://apac.trendmicro.com/apac/purchase/consumer/reseller/my/index.htmlreseller