Trend Micro Toolbar

Trend Micro Toolbar

See Links to Risky Websites at a Glance. Enhance Your Protection from Trend Micro Security Software.

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What is Trend Micro Toolbar?
Trend Micro Toolbar is a Chrome extension designed to boost your online safety. Important features include color-coded safety ratings for search results and hyperlinks in services like Gmail, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Links on social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn are automatically rated for trustworthiness. The toolbar also helps check browser settings to prevent revealing too much information to risky websites. Note that it works best with Trend Micro security software installed on your computer.
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Stats
Users: 3,000,000+
Rating: 3.87 (612)
Version: 17.0.1771.0 (Last updated: 2024-04-09)
Creation date: 2023-11-24
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • cookies
  • tabs
  • storage
  • nativeMessaging
  • management
  • scripting
  • declarativeNetRequest
  • declarativeNetRequestFeedback
  • system.storage
  • system.cpu
Host permissions:
  • *://*/*
Size: 9.87M
Stats date:

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Trend Micro Toolbar
Trend Micro Toolbar (v17.0.1771.0)
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Merlin
Summary
Analyze keywords

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.

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User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
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
by 簡唯中 簡唯中, 2024-05-16

Getting rather piffed off with a blocked pop up that I can't remove, and then this pops up whilst reading an email that my laptop is not secure?? Really, . Add to Chrome, it already is added to Chrome. Get busy help desk/IT and get it sorted out
by Joy Lister Joy Lister, 2024-05-12

Can debug message remove from extension console. Every time when I browse a new page, lots Trend Micro debug messages on Console tab
by Peter Lee Peter Lee, 2024-05-10
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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.

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