Trend Micro Toolbar
See Links to Risky Websites at a Glance. Enhance Your Protection from Trend Micro Security Software.
What is Trend Micro Toolbar?
Stats
Chrome-Stats Rank
Summary
TRICKY NEW THREATS NEVER CEASE
Criminals can hide spyware that downloads automatically when you open what seems like a harmless website. Sometimes they put up fraudulent pages in place of legitimate ones to steal sensitive information. Good friends on Facebook, LinkedIn, or X might sometimes share links to untrustworthy sites without even knowing it.
CLICK WITH CONFIDENCE
After installing the Trend Micro Privacy Scanner, you can easily spot links to risky websites and avoid opening them by mistake. What you don’t click can’t hurt you.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Intuitive color-coded safety ratings integrate seamlessly and effortlessly into the results from popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Baidu. The same ratings apply to hyperlinks appearing in messages that you open in Gmail, as well as web-based email services from Microsoft and Yahoo.
No matter whether you prefer Facebook, LinkedIn, or X, links posted to all of them automatically receive ratings too. You can also easily audit the privacy settings for your favorite social networks directly from the browser window.
The toolbar can even check the settings of the web browser itself to help make sure that you do not reveal too much to untrustworthy websites.
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- Provides security protection while browsing
- Useful tool for preventing pop-up ads and potential threats
- Previously effective for many users
Cons
- Ineffective or annoying pop-up notifications and prompts
- Debug messages and color issues make browsing difficult
- Confusing prompts to add the extension when it's already installed
- Causes issues with Gmail and other web applications
Most mentioned
- Prompting to add the extension when it's already installed
- Annoying pop-up notifications and prompts
- Effectiveness in protecting from potential threats and pop-up ads
- Color issues making browsing difficult
- Debug messages cluttering the console
Recent reviews
Safety
Risk impact
Trend Micro Toolbar is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Trend Micro Toolbar if you trust the publisher.
Risk likelihood
Trend Micro Toolbar has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Promo images
Similar extensions
Here are some Chrome extensions that are similar to Trend Micro Toolbar: