If you never received any warning or notification from your Trend Micro program and are concerned it is not protecting your computer, check the system tray located at the lower right of your screen and see if there is a Trend Micro icon.
Is my Trend Micro program installed properly?
Do these to check if you successfully installed your Trend Micro program on Windows PC:
Update Trend Micro manually
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Trend Micro constantly checks online for security updates to stop new threats every 3 hours. You can also do this manually if your computer is not always connected to the Internet.
- Make sure your computer has an Internet connection.
- Right-click the Trend Micro icon
in the taskbar notification area, then select Check for Program Updates.
If you cannot see it, click the Show hidden icons arrow ^ next to the notification area.
The About Your Software window will appear and check for available updates.
- Click Close after seeing Components are up-to-date.
Run a scan
Trend Micro keeps your computer protected in real-time so you do not need to scan manually to remove viruses. If your computer performs poorly due to a possible infection, you can still run a scan at any time.
- Open Trend Micro.
- Click the arrow beside the Scan tool and choose your preferred scan:
