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The new Trend Micro Titanium AntiVirus Plus 2012 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 AntiVirus Plus , but that's the extent of the registration hoops that are required. Although a reboot isn't mandatory, the program seems to run better after one.You can also disable your contributions to the Smart Protection Network, Trend Micro's behavioral detection net, during installation. Doing so won't make you less safe. It will only prevent your data from becoming part of Trend Micro's analyses.Features and support:The big new feature last year was that Trend Micro Titanium, like Google Chrome, instituted automatic updates, removing the necessity of updating your virus definition files. The autoupdates in Titanium theoretically led to a higher level of security that was more responsive, too. The behavioral-detection approach worked well for Norton, Panda, and Microsoft. No doubt moving detection to the cloud made the program run with less interference in your system, and after a year, it's hard not to conclude that it is effective.You can still schedule scans in Titanium, which you can do from the Virus and Spyware Controls panel under Settings. On that same tab, you can configure how Titanium handles various other security protocols.In its 2012 version, Titanium adds two new engines to the fold. One is designed to detect and remove the "fake antivirus" type of malware, also known as ransomware, that plagues many people. The other stops botnets that might have infected your computer.Titanium AntiVirus Plus does offers the kind of core protection that's expected. Along with antivirus, anti-malware, and malicious link protection, Titanium AntiVirus Plus protects your installed applications from being altered without your permission.Read more: Trend Micro Titanium
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