When you go shopping for a security suite you expect to get at least firewall protection, antivirus, and antispam. Trend Micro includes all of those features in their entry-level antivirus product, along with antiphishing, social network protection, and more. Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2013 offers all the same protection and adds data protection, parental control, and a system tuner.

Trend Micro proved quite a bit more effective when challenged to keep new malware from infecting a clean system. Like SecureIT Plus and Daily Safety Check Home Edition , it detected fully 97 percent of the threats, either immediately on sight or when I tried to launch them. SecureIT Plus topped this test with a score of 9.7 point. Like AVG Internet Security 2013 and several others, Trend Micro scored 9.3. See How We Test Malware Blocking for an explanation of my scoring system.