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In case you’re still in doubt about this, Wikipedia’s informative article about Trend Micro states: I think that I may have already made a choice there. And if you don’t like it, you shouldn’t use their products. So Trend Micro makes no secret of it: they collect browser histories and other personal data. This data and information can also include personal data.” “Because of the fast and constant evolving nature of online threats and malware, it is necessary to configure our products and services to constantly provide data and information from your devices to enable us to stay ahead of malicious activities and protect your devices and data. Although there are two versions, one for EU states with the GDPR and one for the rest of the world, they both say essentially the same. It is here that it all makes sense at last. My next call was to Trend Micro’s privacy statement, to see what that had to say. Trend Micro also claims that “The data collected was explicitly identified to the customer in the data collection policy and is highlighted to the user during the install”, although being App Store apps, the only installation process is run by the App Store app itself, and none of those investigating these apps seems to have noticed such warnings.
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It does not explain how such browser histories might improve an archive tool, battery condition monitor, or locator of duplicate files, though.
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Trend Micro claims that this “was a one-time data collection, done for security purposes (to analyze whether a user had recently encountered adware or other threats, and thus to improve the product & service)”. Battery and Duplicate Finder, all “collected and uploaded a small snapshot of the browser history on a one-time basis, covering the 24 hours prior to installation”. Then last night, Trend Micro came clean and admitted that those three products – Dr. products are within Trend Micro’s main domain.
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Not only that, but some of the links and internet addresses used in the Dr. At the end of this promotional article (it is nothing like a real editorial review), there are some FAQs, none of which mentions the browser history data which this app sends off to a remote server. Cleaner, which also went out of its way to plug Dr. That was shattered, though, when discovered that one of Trend Micro’s blogs had been promoting these products: Simply Security on published a ‘review’ of Dr. I had this idea that maybe a former or current employee was taking advantage of their inside knowledge, and using it to their advantage. Cleaner and others linked not to the main Trend Micro website with its red logo and professionally-written copy, but to a different domain,, where the English is often more fractured, and the whole site rather more amateur. My first response was that the ‘Trend Micro’ caught doing this was simply a scam being run by someone else.
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Surely, this isn’t the sort of company to be involved in the secretive collection of private data including full browser histories? is a public-quoted corporation (KK) headquartered in Tokyo, founded nearly thirty years ago, with almost six thousand employees worldwide, and revenue (2017) of ¥148.8 billion. Unlike another app which stole private data, Adware Doctor, which has also been taken down from the App Store, these three aren’t from a near-anonymous developer, but a multi-national corporation specialising in ‘cybersecurity’. Wifi and Network Scanner, which remain on offer as of 1800 on 10 September 2018. As a result of the hullaballo developing on Twitter and elsewhere, Apple has eventually pulled all the App Store apps by Trend Micro, apart from Dr. Antivirus a detailed listing of all installed apps as well. In careful investigations by security experts including Thomas Reed of Malwarebytes Labs and it was discovered that they exfiltrate browser history, and in the case of Dr. Several of the apps which Apple has recently pulled from the Mac App Store because of their theft of personal data were listed as being developed by Trend Micro.