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Google account due
to some possible
sync issues, especially
when the account is
set up on multiple
devices,” a Trend
Micro representative
told me. “[In] Firefox,
the recent browser
update has caused an
issue and the fix should
be applied [during]
the next Trend Micro
update in July.”
Finally, Data Theft Prevention under the Privacy tab
lets you enter specific information like a credit card
number, email address, or telephone number that you
want protected. If Trend Micro sees this data entered
into a web page, email, or instant message, it will
warn you that the data is leaving your PC. Trend Micro
says you don’t have to enter the entire number either.
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yourcredit card.
In my brief tests, Maximum Security was able to stop
my credit number from going out in a Gmail message,
but didn’t do a thing when I pasted my numbers into
Slack and a new mail message in Thunderbird.
Trend Micro says the Data Theft Prevention feature
doesn’t support the web sockets protocol, which is
why Slack was able to send out the data. It should have
worked in Thunderbird, according to Trend Micro. So
perhaps my experience was specific to my PC.Maximum Security’s data
protection in action