Developers: | Trend Micro |
Date of the premiere of the system: | July, 2010 |
Technology: | Firewall |
The Browser Guard 2010 utility, represents the convenient module for the browser providing preventive protection of users against the threats coming from the Internet, revealing harmful pages and blocking them before they are able to infect the user's computer.
Trend Micro Browser Guard supports the following operating systems: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home/Professional (with the last service pack), Windows Vista® (with the last service pack) and Microsoft® Windows® 7.
Trend Micro Browser Guard will help to protect users from many dangerous threats, for example the attacks like zero-day (Hydraq and Aurora). The similar attacks are directed to all three vectors of communications — e-mail, the Internet and files — and at the same time still unknown, just revealed vulnerabilities of the Internet Explorer (IE) browser use. The swindlers using a malicious code of JavaScript for the attacks to IE hope for carelessness of users.
Trend Micro Browser Guard analyzes and blocks harmful the JavaScript code, without allowing it to use vulnerability and to perform harmful operations on the computer. For the most effective protection this utility interacts with infrastructure of Trend Micro Smart Protection Network that allows to provide the relevant level of protection of Internet users when they connected to the web and whatever antivirus protection was set on their computers.