TrustPort antivirus 2010 is a relatively new antivirus with Czech roots.  The antivirus is similar to G-Data Antivirus in that it utilizes two antivirus engines; the Bitdefender and the AVG engine.  As with G-Data Antivirus, the combining of two free antivirus engines produces excellent detection results.  According to AV-comparatives, Trustport has some of the highest adware/spyware detection rates but also suffers from slower scanning speeds because of the dual engine burden.  Trustport also offers many unique features including internet protection and the ability to selectively disable antivirus engines.  We will now see how Trustport 2010 stacks up against the competition. 

Installation:

    The installation of TrustPort was relatively smooth and completed in about 5 minutes.  The whole executable was a whopping 144 megabytes in size, which is by far the largest antivirus executable available.  In addition to the large size, the download server was particularly slow.  The large executable is also interesting because the internet security version is only 19 megabytes larger but also includes a personal firewall and a whole slew of other utilities.
    One thing that I like about the installation is that the software alerts the user to verify if other antivirus programs are already installed.  This notice is important because often users will attempt to install a free antivirus program on top of an antivirus that might have been included with the laptop/computer.  This situation creates problems especially if both antiviruses include real time protection.  If one antivirus accesses a file, the other antivirus program will also access the file creating a slowdown.

Interface:

    The interface most closely resembles an older version of Avast 4.8 in the sense that it is very basic.  The helpful graphical interfaces of Norton 2010 or F-Secure free antivirus are absent.  In the easy mode, a small 4 inch by 2-inch box is displayed with six different “small” icons controlling the on-access scanner and the on-demand scanner etc.  There are no status indicators present or information pertaining to the last virus update etc.  This situation could be confusing to a novice user.  Trust Port does offer an “advanced interface” but even this view resembles a standard settings page of ESET NO32.  In the advanced interface, the user is still left in the dark as to the status of the antivirus protection etc.  This could be potentially dangerous because a user will never be completely sure that they are actually protected.  Finally, to TrustPort’s credit the advanced interface does offer many configuration options.

Features:

    TrustPort antivirus 2010 does offer a handful of unique features to the antivirus market.

    Advanced Antivirus Engine Control.  This Feature is unique to TrustPort and is not offered by G-Data.  A user can actually specify the priority of the antivirus engine.  For example, if av-comparatives finds the AVG engine superior to the Bitdefender engine for the month of March, then a user can raise the priority of the AVG engine and vice versa.  In addition to engine priority, a user can control if an engine is in use for the on demand scanning, on –access protection, or the Internet Protection scanning.  This is again useful if a user finds that Bitdefender On-Access scanning is superior to AVG’s and can therefore save computer resources with only one active engine.  In addition to the on/off settings, Trustport also offers individual antivirus settings configuration.  This leverages the original settings included with the Bitdefender/AVG programs and allows user to tweak them from within Trustport (i.e. scan email databases, analyze packed executables, and detect non-virus malware etc).   Finally, it appears that TrustPort has left space or capability to add additional antivirus engines to be incorporated into TrustPort.  Therefore, it will be interesting to see what engines Trustport will incorporate in the future.

    Sandbox Capability.  Both the on demand and the Internet Protection systems in Trust Port offer sandboxing.  Essentially, this technology will take a suspicious file and execute the file in a virtual drive located safely within memory.  If suspicious activity is detected, the file will be labeled as dangerous and quarantined.   This technology is the selling point of Prevx antivirus and will only make standard antivirus (Trustport) more secure and capable.  Unfortunately, the Sandbox capability is not enabled by default.  A user will probably want to enable the protection but be prepared to wait longer for certain scans.

    Internet Protection.  This feature is hardly unique to Trustport 2010.  However, the Internet Protection has some exclusive features.  One being that the ports for the web and the email checking can be configured and changed.  This is helpful for users who use obscure proxy ports or mail ports at work or home.  The port configuration ensures that a user will be protected in all situations.

Virus Scanning and Detection:

    Virus scanning was somewhat slow and took about 2 hours to completely scan the test system’s 152 gigabyte partition.  Trust Port did not report any false positives, which is contrary to av-comparatives report about significant false positives.  Other antivirus review sites also found that TrustPort has high Adware detection rates.  We found that Trust Port successfully detected all of the viruses on our virus test drive.  
    TrustPort does not include a quick antivirus scan, which is somewhat unfortunate.  In addition, the dual engines do not appear to increase TrustPort’s efficacy.  TrustPort 2010 still receives lower ratings compared to a single Bitdefender engine.  This is not the case with G-data antivirus that achieves higher virus detection rates because it utilizes two free antivirus engines.

Resource Usage:

    TrustPort 2010 antivirus resource usage was standard at about 50 megabytes while idle and 100 megabytes will scanning for viruses.  I did not detect any slowdown on the test computer while a scan was running.  CPU usage was somewhat high during a virus scan ranging from 60% to 90% CPU usage.

Conclusion:

   TrustPort 2010 is a standard antivirus and excels in Adware detection.  Unfortunately, TrustPort really does not have a mature interface and this will be confusing to the novice user.  Trust Port antivirus could be really appealing if the company incorporates additional antivirus engines into their software.

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