mrpeterjohnston

@tm_Waj​ Yeah, after that comment - I'm DEFINITELY cancelling my membership the second it expires. The idiocy of this "feature" is baffling and beyond belief, and is poorly thought out.

@claudiubotezatu​ I'm just glad I'm not the only one who thinks this whole sub-layer of "protection" is ludicrous and very heavily flawed.

@tm_helen​ Well... nice go. You had this very lovely piece of software and through terrible decisions made it clunkier and less helpful.

Quite an achievement.

Is this "feature" here to stay, or will future updates possibly allow the user to disable the password prompt setup when disabling the protection... because if this is here to say - I'm cancelling my subscription come the end of my billing period.

@tm_ash Without this safeguard, anyone could potentially disable your antivirus protection with just a simple click.

You fail to see the point... they ALREADY can disable the anti-virus without a password with a couple of simple clicks. All they have to do is close the program. The password is redundant in trying to keep the protection on if all people need to do is end the application.

@tm_helen​ Well... in the case of organisations installing this software on dozens of work computers - sure. For you standard single user like a lot of your clients... this ISN'T needed, and should be optional or toggle-able.

@tm_vince​ I think you completely missed my point. I know you don't get the Password console setup dialog when you exit the program, yet you get it if you try and temporarily disable the live protection... which to me seems rather dumb. If your goal was to have a password to give administrators more rights and privileges over users and to stop them disabling the protection, then you've failed given that they can just close the program and bypass the password.

I like being able to temporarily disable it from time to time without having to close it, and have been doing so happily for years.

It also seems very fiddly to have to go through the Diagnostic Toolkit as well.

@tm_vince​ Well... that seems dumb. If I want to disable the anti-virus - I might as well just quit the application (as claudiubotezatu mentioned)

... but being able to temporarily disable it via the system tray was far easier and quicker.

I would highly recommend rescinding this so called "feature" and put it back to the way it was.

@davevt31​ Yes... this guy gets it. I've only ever had this for the last week or two maybe. It is the Password box that opens up when trying to temporarily disable the protection.

WHO thought this was a good idea??? And who decided that it had to be mandatory???

After all the years of using Trend Micro Internet Security... it's now saying that if I want to 'temporary Turn off the Protection against viruses', I need to enable my Security Software Password... there's no way around this bollocks.

I use a lot of Widescreen hacks for games that enable the full use of my 32:9 monitor that Trend incorrectly deletes, thinking they're viruses but I've never had to deal with this type of crap until now.

If this feature isn't shortly disabled, or gives users the ability to disable it - I'll be cancelling my subscription to Trend Micro forever.