Latest Trend Micro anti-virus solution
By Subashini Selvaratnam
18th April 2002

TO help protect home and small office-home office (SOHO) users from the viruses and malicious codes which will infect their personal computer (PCs), Trend Micro Inc has launched PC-cillin 2002, the latest version of its popular consumer desktop anti-virus solution.

Country sales manager Wong Joon Hoong said the PC-cillin 2002 offers an all-in-one solution at an affordable price. For RM99, home users will get an integrated personal firewall solution, wireless device protection and advanced detection and elimination of viruses and other malicious codes threats.

In terms of features, the integrated personal firewall is designed to secure the user's personal computer (PC) from information theft and other hidden threats while he or she is online.

"When a virus is found in real-time, the PC-cillin 2002 locks the local PC's Internet access using the Internet emergency lock feature," explained Wong during a media briefing.

Besides protecting PCs from virus threats, PC-cillin 2002 also supports wireless devices powered by handheld operating systems (OSes) such as Palm OS, Pocket PC and Epoc.

"Although there are not many known viruses found in Palm OS, we predict that in a one-year time frame more viruses will be written for Palm OS-based devices," said Wong.

"Other features include real-time scanning when launching Palm applications and providing protection to your PC during synchronisation."

PC-cillin 2002 is also designed to restraint new, unknown and script-based viruses or malicious codes that can penetrate Web sites and electronic-mail (e-mail). This is done using the ScriptTrap feature that detects unknown script viruses by scanning the viruses behaviours.

Meanwhile, the Trojan System Cleaner is a tool that cleans up the Trojan virus infection. It recovers damaged files that are important to the OS and terminates certain Trojan programs running in the PC's memory.

Another feature that is found in PC-cillin 2002 is Web filtering that protects children from browsing offensive and inappropriate Web sites. With this feature, parents can control their children from surfing undesirable Web sites.

To make the software easier to use, its interface is configurable to operate in either simple or standard mode. The simple mode is designed for beginners while the standard mode is for novices to advanced users. Designed for both home and office users, PC-cillin 2002 is compatible with Windows OSes, including Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

The local distributors are SiS Distribution (M) Sdn Bhd and S.S. Technology (Far East) Sdn Bhd.