Trend Micro Makes a Better SMB Messaging Solution

West Coast Labs

Independent tests conducted by West Coast Labs validated the top tier content security management players and their SMB products for ease-of-use, and the ability to assess, prevent, protect, and cleanup following virus outbreaks, with potentially little or no IT intervention.

The products tested include these.

  • Trend Micro™ Client Server Messaging Security for SMB 3.0
  • Symantec™ Client Security 3.0 for Groupware
  • McAfee™ Active AV Defense 8.0i

BETTER for SMBs

According to the report, Trend Micro™ Client Server Messaging Security is the only SMB solution with zero user intervention and these critical automatic threat protection features:

  • Built-in automatic capabilities to monitor and prevent propagation of a new virus before a signature file is available
  • Vulnerability assessment to identify computers that have a system vulnerability that can be exploited by a new threat
  • Complete malware cleanup with all traces removed (no registry entries, files or processes remaining)

Assess and Identify Computers Vulnerable to Specific Malware Attacks

Trend Micro was the only solution with an integrated, centrally operated vulnerability assessment tool making it unnecessary to visit all computers for manual updates as required by Symantec and McAfee.

Automatic Detection and Remediation

"Although the McAfee and Symantec solutions did inoculate the network following a vendor update, they did not remove all remnants - registry entries remained - however, the Trend Micro product did not have any registry entries, files or processes remaining, the malware had been completely cleaned and all traces removed." --West Coast Labs

Zero Day Malware Protection against Unknown Threats

"The results proved that following the automatic deployment of Trend Micro's automatic threat protection, the test network was automatically protected against the malware samples before the availability of traditional virus signatures... The results show on both the McAfee and Symantec installed instances of the test network all twelve computers became contaminated with the sample malware by the time virus signatures were available." --West Coast Labs