
Trend Micro includes a lot of documentation, including FAQs and guides, and phone support (available 5am-8pm on the standard price plan, 24/7 with premium). The webcam shield feature prevents hackers from hijacking your webcam and their security suite includes a password vault.īoth companies offer a range of customer support. The passive mode is also useful as it reduces all heavy processing when activated. Trend Micro provides a valuable social media defense system to optimize your privacy settings, as well as a PC optimization feature which deletes out-of-date firewalls and software.Īvast excels at protecting gamers with its a dedicated ‘Game Mode’ to stop pop-ups when you’re playing. Trend Micro offers customizable parental controls Avast only includes a ‘Site Blocking’ feature that’s not as targeted to keeping kids safe. While much of their security suites are the same, there are some notable differences. Another useful factor is the digital file shredder, which permanently deletes unwanted files from your hard drive.

Both antivirus providers offer premium features, including innovative heuristic scanning, anti-phishing, and anti-ransomware protection. Although the latter is slightly less well-known, it currently has 250 million customers. Avast and Trend Micro are both top-rated antivirus solutions.
