Review of Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security

Written by: Steve Mallard • Edited by: Bill Bunter
Updated May 7, 2010 • Related Guides: Trend Micro | Internet Security Threats

Trend Micro's Worry-Free Business Security Advanced truly lives up to its name. WFB provides a centralized server protection for your entire business. With a centralized server and the Client / Server Security Agent, your entire network will be protected from malicious websites and

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See our Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 6.0 Review for a review of the latest version of WFBS.

Trend Micro’s latest version has Windows Vista support for 32 and 64 bit edition computers. This support adds Microsoft’s latest operating system flawlessly (My installation was on Server 2003 and Windows Vista).

Behavior Monitoring which is also included helps to protect computers from end user changes to the operating system, registry along with files and folders. Protection of computers also includes Web Reputation evaluates the potential security risk of website URLs just prior to a website visit. Web Reputation works by querying Trend Micro’s Security database. This prevents end users from picking up viruses and malware.

I tested this by traveling to several hacking sites and was promptly warned . Kudos to Trend for having an up to date database. I had several dark websites that are not well known that I research that made their list! (TrendSecure™ ) TrendSecure was added with the Client Server Security Agent as a plug-in to my web browser.

With PoP3 Main Scan and IM Content Filtering, Trend Micro lived up to their history of quality. I also tested Intuit™ Protection which protects the files and folders of your Quickbooks installation from unauthorized changes by other programs. I ran this test on a sample Quickbooks install and felt comfortable with installation and protection. Trend Micro’s Worry Free Business Advanced is truly an all in one security suite that meets the needs of all businesses.

The administrative logistics behind the installation and operation are minimal and can save time and money for network and system administrators. With the insecurity of the web, Trend Micro's WFB Advanced is a top rated performer that takes the worry away from any system administrator.

WFB Installation

After making the initial 700+mb download for this review, the installation went flawlessly. With the installation of the client/server, sql and Apache Server, the installation including updates took approximately 25 minutes.

During the initial installation, I was impressed with the all inclusive installation that took customized settings for a proxy server. This was particularly an important part of the installation on a Windows 2003 server that was configured behind a proxy. Many programs fail because this small but critical setting is required in many organizations.

Equally impressive was the automatic uninstall of my current antivirus software. Trend put this important step in to avoid conflicts from other antivirus software vendors.

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James Mar 22, 2011 5:21 PM

How to push to clients?

We purchased this software and someone installed in on our server. How do we push this out to our clients? :)

Don Sep 7, 2010 9:39 PM

Trend WFB

We've been using WFB in our organisation for around 4 months now. I had no issues installing the software on our SBS 2008 server. Has done a good job at catching viruses and blocking dangerous sites. It pretty much takes care of itself so once you install it you can forget about it.

David Mooney Feb 9, 2010 7:31 AM

WFBS So good I tend to forget its there

Yes it takes alot of disk space but as the smallest disk in my worst server is 60GB it does not really matter. Spam never gets through, any virus is stopped and all my patching is checked (a bit irrelevant now I use WSUS). I use it with SBS2008 and love it. I dont have a lot of time to spend on the network and now AV is one less thing to tend to. You have to watch log files genterated in IIS on the SBS server. Renewing licenses can be a problem as there are not many resellers.
We also use Interscan Viruswall which has excellent http ftp filtering including content filtering which ensures inappropriate webites are blocked.

Andrew Brazier Aug 18, 2009 5:46 AM

WFBS, not very good.

MY WFBS experience has been pretty poor. We needed to upgrade to cater for Vista. Ran the upgrade, very very smooth so full marks there. Directly after the upgrade completed, Exchange died and file system access to the server failed. Phoned Trend, "nothing to do with us"! Speechless! A server reboot resolved it but only after two hours of frantic troubleshooting.
The next piece of fun was disk space, WFBS can take up to 10GB (yes TEN GIGABYTES) of disk space in normal operation. That caused us problems almost at once and in my book puts it firmly in the "virus"category. Take signature files, there are about 97MB each currently and our Trend installation has not one, not two but about 30 of them including old versions which it likes to salt away for some reason. Trend say this is by design, I say this is by BAD design. Their support have been reasonably helpful but beware of them escalating a case. That means it gets ignored for 2-3 days.
Overall we are very disappointed with the product, when it eats all the disk space the Web Console breaks and Message scanning stops. Clearing disk allows for Message scanning to be restarted but the WC is still broken despite Trend's best efforts to fix it.

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