Latest version delivers a high level of security with less impact on users and PC resources
Internet threats continue to grow at an alarming rate, making it hard to keep protection up to date, while the tools themselves can be really intrusive. Trend Micro’s Worry-Free Business Security Advanced 6.0 addresses both issues, most notably through its innovative new Smart Scan technology, which offloads much of the work involved to remote servers elsewhere.
Rather than maintain a collection of signatures on each client, Smart Scan signatures are divided into those for known threats, such as Trojans and spyware (around 80 per cent), and those mutating rapidly, which it handles using heuristics (roughly 20 per cent). Only the heuristic scanning is done locally on the client PC, with the rest handled either by a security server on the LAN or, if out of the office, a Trend service in the Cloud.
The end result is the ability to distribute updates more rapidly while the local client has far less impact in terms of processing and memory requirements. The new Worry-Free client can also be configured to pause during high CPU consumption, plus it offers a number of other enhancements including protection against threats transmitted by portable USB devices.
As the name implies, the Worry-Free suite is designed to take the worry out of network protection with a suite of tools to protect against viruses, spam, spyware and most other common malware. Customers with limited expertise can get a reseller to install and remotely manage the product, but given that it took us less than half a day to fully deploy on a small company LAN, most small business managers should be able to get by without outside help.
The first task was to configure the central security server, for which we used an existing file server running Windows Server 2003, although any version of Windows from 2000 onwards can be employed. There’s support too for both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations, and for small deployments a desktop PC can be used instead. A web server is also needed to host the management console, which we didn’t have, but that wasn’t a problem as the setup program installing Apache on our server could handle this side of things.
