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She can act, she can host, she can sing. Dubbed as The Princess of All Media, there's probably very few unknown facts about Anne Curtis. In an exclusive interview with fashion brand Plains and Prints, Curtis shared her fashion preferences and dreams of becoming a designer. Here are five fun facts that you probably didn't know about Curtis as fashionista. What's in her 'kikay kit'? It is easy to assume that because Curtis is a top celebrity, her bag must be full of stuff ordinary girls could only dream of. But, surprisingly she actually carries only a few items in her bag. She reveals that on a typical day, she would just carry her wallet, phone, sunglasses, perfume and mini-kikay kit. "It’s just basic stuff," she said. What's her sense of style? Curtis is fast becoming a fashion icon. But she clarified that she doesn't actually have a definite fashion style. “I’m the type of girl that likes to mix it up," she said. "I’m very much experimental with fashion, always trying something new.” Who is her inspiration? Only a few people know that Anne Curtis is a huge fan of Audrey Hepburn, citing the Hollywood legend's simplicity and devotion to charity. “Audrey Hepburn will always be an icon to me. I find her an inspiration. She’s always up there for me," Curtis said. But did you know that the Olsen Twins have also slowly influenced her wardrobe for their "easy, effortless, boho cool"? What's her fashion dream? As someone who loves clothes, Curtis also dreams of creating her own outfits someday. She said she would like to collaborate with Plains and Prints, where she is a model. “I’ve always liked the idea of collaborating on the design of an outfit, so I’d like to do it one day," she said. Curtis said that she is very honored to be working with fashion biggies like designer Rhett Eala. “I remember just sitting there thinking ‘OMG! I’ve long admired him as a designer. I can’t believe I’m shooting in his clothes,’” she recalled.

Video: At Least Four Men Killed at Sea Image from footage of murder at sea, found on a cellphone camera in Fiji. The man bobbing in the sea raises his arms in a seeming sign of surrender before he is shot in the head. He floats face down as his blood stains the blue water. A slow-motion slaughter unfolds over the next 6 minutes and 58 seconds. Three other men floating in the ocean, some clinging to what looks like the wreckage of an overturned wooden boat, are surrounded by several large white tuna longliners. The sky above is clear and blue; the sea below, dark and choppy. As the ships’ engines idle loudly, at least 40 rounds are fired as the unarmed men are methodically picked off. “Shoot, shoot, shoot!” commands a voice over one of the ship’s loudspeakers as the final man is killed. Soon after, a group of men on deck who appear to be crew members laugh among themselves, then pose for selfies. Despite dozens of witnesses on at least four ships, those killings remain a mystery. No one even reported the incident — there is no requirement to do so under maritime law nor any clear method for mariners, who move from port to port, to volunteer what they know. Law enforcement officials learned of the deaths only after a video of the killings was found on a cellphone left in a taxi in Fiji last year, then posted on the Internet. With no bodies, no identified victims and no exact location of where the shootings occurred, it is unclear which, if any, government will take responsibility for leading an investigation. Taiwanese fishing authorities, who based on the video connected a fishing boat from Taiwan to the scene but learned little from the captain, say they believe the dead men were part of a failed pirate attack. But maritime security experts, warning that piracy has become a convenient cover for sometimes fatal score-settling, said it is just as likely that the men were local fishermen in disputed waters, mutinied crew, castoff stowaways or thieves caught stealing fish or bait. “Summary execution, vigilantism, overzealous defense, call it what you will,” said Klaus Luhta, a lawyer with the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots, a seafarers’ union. “This boils down just the same to a case of murder at sea and a question of why it’s allowed to happen.” The oceans, plied by more ships than ever before, are also more armed and dangerous than any time since World War II, naval historians say. Thousands of seamen every year are victims of violence, with hundreds killed, according to maritime security officials, insurers and naval researchers. Last year in three regions alone — the western Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa — more than 5,200 seafarers were attacked by pirates and robbers and more than 500 were taken hostage, a database built by The New York Times shows. Many merchant vessels hired private security starting in 2008 as pirates began operating across larger expanses of the ocean, outstripping governments’ policing capacities. Guns and guards at sea are now so ubiquitous that a niche industry of floating armories has emerged. The vessels — part storage depot, part bunkhouse — are positioned in high-risk areas of international waters and house hundreds of assault rifles, small arms and ammunition. Guards on board wait, sometimes for months in decrepit conditions, for their next deployment. Though pirate attacks on large container ships, like that depicted in the film “Captain Phillips,” have dropped sharply over the past several years, other forms of violence remain pervasive. Armed gangs run protection rackets requiring ship captains to pay for safe passage in the Bay of Bengal near Bangladesh. Nigerian marine police officers routinely work in concert with fuel thieves, according to maritime insurance investigators. Off the coast of Somalia, United Nations officials say, some pirates who used to target bigger ships have transitioned into “security” work on board foreign and local fishing vessels, fending off armed attacks, but also firing on rivals to scare them away. Provocations are common. Countries are racing one another to map and lay claim to untapped oil, gas or other mineral resources deep in the ocean, sparking clashes and boat burnings. From the Mediterranean to offshore Australia to the Black Sea, human traffickers carrying refugees and migrants sometimes ram competitors’ boats or deliberately sink their own ships to get rid of their illicit passengers or force a rescue. Violence among fishing boats is widespread and getting worse. Heavily subsidized Chinese and Taiwanese vessels are aggressively expanding their reach, said Graham Southwick, the president of the Fiji Tuna Boat Owners Association. Radar advancements and the increased use of so-called fish-aggregating devices — floating objects that attract schools of fish — have heightened tensions as fishermen are more prone to crowd the same spots. “Catches shrink, tempers fray, fighting starts,” Mr. Southwick said. “Murder on these boats is relatively common.” An employee inspected a rifle aboard the Resolution, a floating armory that anchored in the Gulf of Oman. Credit Ben C. Solomon/The New York Times The violent crime rate related to fishing boats is easily 20 times that of crimes involving tankers, cargo ships or passenger ships, said Charles N. Dragonette, who tracked seafaring attacks globally for the United States Office of Naval Intelligence until 2012. “So long as the victims were Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Filipino, just not European or American, the story never resonated,” he said. Prosecutions for crimes at sea are rare — one former United States Coast Guard official put it at “less than 1 percent” — because many ships lack insurance and captains are averse to the delays and prying that can come with a police investigation. The few military and law enforcement ships that patrol international waters are usually forbidden from boarding ships flying another country’s flag unless given permission. Witnesses willing to speak up are scarce; so is physical evidence. Violence at sea and on land are handled differently, Mr. Dragonette said. “Ashore, no matter how brutal the repression or how corrupt the local government, someone will know who the victims are, where they were, that they did not return,” he said. “At sea, anonymity is the rule.” Pirates and RobbersThe creaky wooden fishing boat strained to cut through eight-foot swells on a clear black night, as its captain, who goes only by the name Rio, spread out a regional map. Headed north, about 50 miles from the Natuna Islands in the South China Sea, he tapped his finger on his location, widened his eyes and contorted his face to register fear. Then, he silently reached over and opened a wheelhouse compartment revealing a Glock handgun. He had a good reason to be armed. The waters in this region, especially those near Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, are among the most perilous in the world. More than 3,100 mariners were assaulted or kidnapped in the area last year, according to the Times database, consisting of more than 6,000 crime reports. The database includes information provided by the Office of Naval Intelligence; two maritime security firms, OceanusLive and Risk Intelligence; and a research group called Oceans Beyond Piracy. No international agency comprehensively tracks maritime violence. The death tolls in these attacks are murky because follow-up investigations are rare, police reports often lack details and bodies tend to disappear at sea. But maritime researchers estimated that hundreds of seafarers are killed annually in attacks. (They caution those numbers are likely to be undercounts because they do not include deaths close to shore or in some particularly dangerous areas where deaths are rarely reported to international authorities.) Typical culprits included: rubber-skiff pirates armed with rocket-propelled grenades, night-stalking fuel thieves, hit-and-run bandits wielding machetes. But a variety of other actors appear too, and many of them are not as they initially seem: hijackers masquerading as marine police officers, human traffickers posing as fishermen, security guards moonlighting as arms dealers. For instance, there were 10 Sri Lankan migrants, a group that included women and children, who were smuggled aboard a fishing boat in 2012 near the island nation. When their demands to set a new course for Australia were refused, the migrants attacked the crew, killing at least two men by throwing them overboard. Or the three captive Burmese workers who in 2009 escaped their Thai trawler in the South China Sea by leaping overboard, swimming to a nearby yacht, killing its owner and stealing his lifeboat. The waters near Bangladesh illustrate why maritime violence is frequently overlooked by the international community. In the past five years, nearly 100 sailors and fishermen have been killed annually in Bangladeshi waters — and as least as many taken hostage — in a string of attacks by armed gangs, according to local media and police reports. Weapons, tactical gear and body armor were stored in a container on the Resolution Armed assaults have been a problem there for two decades, according to insurance and maritime security analysts. In 2013, the Bangladeshi media reported the abduction of more than 700 fishermen, 150 in September alone. Forty were reported killed in a single episode, many of them with their feet and hands bound before being thrown overboard. These attacks were usually conducted by the half-dozen armed gangs that operate protection rackets in the Bay of Bengal and the swampy inland waters called the Sundarbans. Last year, they engaged in gun battles with the Bangladesh Air Force and Coast Guard during government raids on coastal camps and hostage ships. Bangladesh’s former foreign minister, Dr. Dipu Moni, reprimanded the international shipping industry and the foreign and local news media several years ago for defaming the country by describing its waters as a “high risk” zone for piracy. “There has not been a single incident of piracy” in years, Dr. Moni said in a December 2011 written statement, adding that most of the violence off the nation’s coast involved petty theft and robberies, most often committed by “dacoits” (a term derived from the Hindi word for bandits). Those claims pivot on a legal distinction between piracy, which under international law occurs on the high seas or in waters farther than 12 miles from shore, and robbery, which involves attacks closer to land. Insurance companies once charged $500 for each trip to and from the ports located in the west of India, but increased the rate to $150,000, given the area’s piracy-prone designation, a Bangladeshi foreign ministry official said during a news conference in December 2011. After Bangladeshi officials protested to the International Maritime Bureau, which tracks piracy at sea, that their country was stigmatized as a high-piracy zone, the group amended its website to say its warning covered piracy and armed robbery. In an interview, Mukundan Pottengal, the director of the bureau, which is primarily funded by shipping companies and insurers, said his organization does not try to determine the exact location of attacks or whether they are in national or international waters, partly because these details are often contested by countries. “Whether they are called pirates or robbers is a legal distinction,” he said. “It does not change the nature of their act or the danger to the ship or crew when armed strangers get on board their ship.” On his fishing boat, Rio said that violence is just a part of life at sea. “You must be ready, always ready,” he said. For instance, he explained that larger, unlicensed fishing vessels in the area often plow through local fishermen’s nets, not just eliminating their catch, but destroying their livelihoods. Making a hand gesture as though he was firing his gun in the air, Rio revved his engine, lurching the boat forward, showing how he charged at others in these situations. A wiry chain-smoker, Rio recounted the last time he used his gun. A year earlier, he said, he fired at a bigger ship that approached his boat late at night without permission. Rio said he then sped away, uncertain whether he had hit anyone on board. Asked whether he reported the shooting to the police, Rio crinkled his face as if he did not understand. After several silent minutes, he asked: “Why would anyone report that?” Floating ArmoriesAbout 25 miles offshore from the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman, a half-dozen private security guards sat on the upper deck of the Resolution, a St. Kitts and Nevis-flagged floating armory. After the men traded war stories about past encounters with pirates, the conversation soon turned to a shared concern: the growing influx of untrained hires into the booming $13 billion-a-year security business. “It’s like handing a bachelor a newborn,” one guard said, describing how some of the new recruits react when given a semiautomatic weapon. Many of the new hires lack combat experience, speak virtually no English (despite a fluency requirement), and do not know how to clean or fix their weapons, said the guards, most of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear they would be blacklisted from jobs. Some of the recruits show up to work carrying ammunition in Ziploc bags or shoe boxes. Security contractors, who face intense boredom in the long breaks between deployments, lifted weights and exercised on the deck of the Resolution The maritime security industry includes fewer fly-by-night companies today than it did several years ago, according to the guards. But the potential for mishandling attacks — with possibly deadly consequences — has increased over the past year or so, they argued, because the shipping industry has been cutting costs, shifting from four-man security teams to teams of two or three less experienced men. The 141-foot Resolution is among several dozen converted cargo ships, tugboats and demining barges that have been parked in high-risk areas of the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, usually just outside national waters. The guards pay as little as $25 per night to stay on the ship (the charge for carrying the men to and from client ships is often several thousand dollars), and check their weapons into a locked storage container upon arrival. Then they wait, sometimes for weeks, for their next job. Somali piracy spurred many governments to encourage merchant vessels to arm themselves or hire private security, a break from the longstanding practice of nations trying to maintain a near monopoly on the use of force. Meanwhile, growing terrorism concerns led port officials globally to impose tighter restrictions on weapons being carried into national waters. Floating armories emerged as a solution. On the Resolution, security “team leaders,” most of them American, British or South African military veterans, explained what makes gun battles at sea so different from those on land. “Between fight or flight,” said Cameron Mouat, a guard working for MNG Maritime, a British company that charters the Resolution. “Out here, there’s just fight.” There is no place to hide, no falling back, no air support, no ammunition drops, he said. Targets are almost always fast moving. Aim is usually wobbly because the ship constantly sways. Some ships are the equivalent of several football fields in length, too big, these guards contended, for a two- or three-man security detail to handle, especially when attackers arrive in multiple boats. Discerning threats is difficult. Semiautomatic weapons, formerly a pirates’ telltale sign, are now found on virtually all boats traversing dangerous waters, they said. Smugglers, with no intention of attacking, routinely nestle close to larger merchant ships to hide in their radar shadow and avoid being detected by coastal authorities. Fishing boats also sometimes tuck behind larger ships because they churn up sea-bottom sediment that attracts fish. “The concern isn’t just whether a new guard will misjudge or panic and fire too soon,” explained a South African guard. “It’s also whether he will shoot soon enough.” If guards hesitate too long, he said, they miss the chance to take preventive measures that can help avoid fatal force, like firing warning shots, flares or water cannons, or incapacitating an approaching boat’s engine. The armories themselves can be crucibles of violence. Guards climbing off another floating armory, the Seapol One, pulled out their smartphones and showed pictures of the infested, cramped, trash-strewn cabins where eight men bunked. Like most floating armories, the Seapol One, run by the Sri Lankan firm Avant Garde Maritime Services, had no armed security of its own to police its guests or protect against pirates who might seek to commandeer the arsenal. Most coastal nations oppose the armories, though they can do little to stop them since they are situated in international waters. None of the guards interviewed knew of any fatal clashes on the armories. But there was no shortage of friction, they said. A Latvian guard, weighing more than 300 pounds and standing well over six feet, relieved himself in the shower because he could not fit in the bathroom stalls. Confronted by other guards, he refused to clean it up. A smaller transport ship disconnected from the Resolution in the dead of night. Credit Ben C. Solomon/The New York Times Several days earlier a heated argument erupted between two South African guards and their team leader. Unpaid for nearly a month, the men had been abandoned by their security company and left on the Seapol with no way to get back to port. Kevin Thompson, a British guard, described intense boredom and isolation, which some guards relieved with occasional drinks of forbidden alcohol or by lifting weights, assisted by steroids. Describing the armories, he said, “They’re basically psychological pressure cookers.” Unsolved KillingsThe video of the killing of the four men speaks to a survival-of-the-fittest brutality common at sea, according to a dozen security experts who reviewed the footage. They speculated that one gunman, quite likely a private security guard, did all the shooting, using a semiautomatic weapon. And, they said, the four ships at the scene were probably associated with one another, perhaps by shared ownership. “You don’t rob a bank in mixed company,” one former United States Coast Guard official explained. Last summer, the police in the Fijian capital of Suva closed their investigation into the shootings. They reasoned that the incident did not occur in their national waters, nor did it involve their vessels. Since no Fijian mariners had been reported missing, they concluded none of their citizens were among the victims. When governments investigate incidents like this, their goal is typically not to find the culprit, said Glen Forbes from OceanusLive, the maritime risk firm. “It’s to clear their name.” The video, which includes people speaking Chinese, Indonesian and Vietnamese languages, shows three large vessels circling the floating men. A banner that says “Safety is No. 1” in Chinese hangs in the background on the deck of one of the ships. A fourth vessel, which maritime records indicate is a 725-ton Taiwanese-owned tuna longliner called Chun I 217, passes by in the background. Lin Yu-chih, the owner of the Chun I 217, which remains at sea, said that he did not know whether any of the more than a dozen other ships he owns or operates were present when the men were shot. “Our captain left as soon as possible,” Mr. Lin said, referring to the shooting scene. Though the date of the shooting is unknown, he said that he believed it occurred in 2013 in the Indian Ocean, where the Chun I 217 has been sailing for the last five years. Mr. Lin declined to release any details about the crew of the Chun I 217 or the report he said he asked the captain to write about the killings after the Taiwan police contacted his company. Mr. Lin, a board member of the Taiwanese tuna longliners association, said the private security guards on his ships were provided by a Sri Lankan company, which he declined to name. The Taiwan prosecutor’s office, which is looking into the matter, declined to comment. With one of the world’s largest tuna fleets, Taiwan’s fishing industry is among the nation’s biggest employers and most politically powerful sectors. Two Taiwanese fishing officials later said that the company authorized to put private security guards on Taiwanese ships was Avant Garde Maritime Services, the same business that runs the Seapol One, the armory in the Gulf of Oman. The company declined to answer questions about its guards or its floating armories. Tzu-Yaw Tsay, the director of the Taiwanese fisheries agency, declined during an interview to release the Chun I 217’s crew list or captain’s name. He suggested, though, that the men in the water were most likely pirates who had been rebuffed. “We don’t know what happened,” Mr. Tsay then acknowledged. “So there’s no way for us to say whether it’s legal.”

Surfer Mick Fanning before being attacked by a shark during the JBay surf Open on Sunday. A surfing competition in South Africa was canceled after the surfer Mick Fanning, a three-time world champion, fought off a shark attack on live television during the program's opening minutes. He escaped the water with another competitor, Julian Wilson, shaken but physically unharmed. The World Surf League canceled the competition, the J-Bay Open, and said in a statement that Fanning and Wilson, both finalists, had agreed to split the prize money and each receive second-place points. The competition is the sixth stop on the World Surf League's Samsung Galaxy Championship Tour. "We are incredibly grateful that no one was seriously injured today," the World Surf League said in a statement. "Mick's composure and quick acting in the face of a terrifying situation was nothing short of heroic, and the rapid response of our Water Safety personnel was commendable - they are truly world class at what they do." Video of the event posted to YouTube by the World Surf League shows Fanning holding his surfboard and swimming in deep water when a shark fin suddenly appears next to him. His head whipped to the side in a panic before he disappeared under the waves. Somebody yelled over a loudspeaker, "Get out of there immediately! Get out of there now!" Moments later three rescue vehicles, including jet skis, rushed toward Fanning, and he climbed onto the back of one of them. He flashed his rescuers a thumbs-up. "That's one of the dangers of professional surfing," said one of the television announcers. Another described the episode as like "nothing ever seen before" in the sport. In a brief video interview posted to Twitter by the World Surf League, a rattled Fanning repeatedly described himself as "tripping." "I'm totally fine. I've got nothing wrong with me," he said. "There's a small depression in my board and my leg rope got bitten. I'm just, like, totally tripping out." Wilson told an interviewer from the World Surf League that he feared Fanning was not going to survive the attack. When he remembered the rescue boats were nearby, "we both started screaming," he said. Renato Hickel, an official with the Association of Surfing Professionals, told the World Surf League that Fanning was attacked by two sharks, not just the one visible on video. "This is the first time in professional surfing history - you know I never experienced and nobody ever experienced a situation like that, where a surfer is attacked by two sharks right when a final starts," said Hickel, according to the World Surf League video. Speaking to a reporter from inside a rescue boat, Fanning, who appeared both emotionally rattled and exhilarated, described his brief battle with the shark. "I was just sitting there. I was just about to just start moving and then I felt something grab or get stuck in my leg rope and I instantly just jumped away, and then it just kept coming at my board and I just kept kicking and screaming," Fanning said. "I just saw fins, I didn't see teeth, but I was waiting for the teeth to come at me." Asked if he got any punches in, he replied with a laugh, "I punched it in the back."

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Trend Micro Premium Security scores perfectly in finding and removing malware, was the fastest of the premium antivirus products we reviewed at performing a quick scan and had nearly the lowest system impact. Yet Trend Micro's malware engine, effective as it is, registered the most false positives of any of the six, and Premium Security omits some useful features that competing products offer. At the time of this writing, Premium Security, normally $100 per year, was being sold for half off on the Trend Micro website. Fifty dollars for a year's worth of protection for up to five PCs, Macs or mobile devices is a great deal, but to get the discount, you need to sign up for automatic yearly license renewal. (The fine print says that you might not get the $50 deal in following years, but also that you can cancel auto-renewal at any time.) The company also charges an extra $20 a year for 24/7 telephone tech support, something that most other antivirus makers include at no additional cost. Note that Trend Micro Premium Security is a rebranded version of Trend Micro Maximum Security, a similar product that has less cloud-storage space, covers three devices instead of five and costs 10 percent less. Otherwise, the two programs are identical, and Premium Security's desktop interface, as you'll see in our screenshots, proudly proclaims "Trend Micro Maximum Security" throughout. How We TestedWe installed Trend Micro Premium Security 2015 on a two-year-old Dell Inspiron 7537 with a Core i5 4200 processor, 6GB of RAM and a 700GB hard drive, of which 114GB was filled with an assortment of data and programs. The system had 64-bit Windows 8.1 running. Once everything was loaded, we recorded how long it took to install Trend Micro Premium Security, and examined its interface as well as which security features and useful extras it offered. To determine the product's performance impact, we ran our OpenOffice benchmarks before the antivirus software was installed, and then again while the program was scanning for malware. MORE: Best Antivirus Protection for PC, Mac and Android To assess Trend Micro's ability to protect against malware, we used evaluations performed on Windows 8.1 in January and February 2015 by Germany's AV-TEST lab. Each of about two dozen malware engines was given a good workout by being subjected to thousands of real and simulated pieces of malware. Antivirus ProtectionIn addition to checking stored files for malware, Trend Micro Premium Security keeps an eye on all code running on the computer for indications that it may be harmful. Its database of malware signatures is updated daily. Besides the Premium Security product, Trend Micro sells the less expensive Maximum Security, Internet Security, and Antivirus + Security. Despite the market segmentation, all of the Windows products use the same malware scanner, signature database and real-time detection engine. During January and February of 2015, AV-TEST examined Trend Micro Internet Security's ability to find and eradicate zero-day (previously unseen) and well-known malware. The software rated a perfect 6-out-of-6 detection score, finding 100 percent of the items AV-TEST threw at it, a feat unmatched of the five other brands we recently reviewed. This airtight protection came at a cost, though. Trend Micro's malware engine reported eight false positives over the two-month test period, much more than any of the other five brands we reviewed, and above the industry average of six. By contrast, Kaspersky Total Security had zero false positives, Bitdefender had one and Avast three, despite being just a hair less effective than Trend Micro at blocking malware. Security FeaturesTrend Micro Premium Security provides many bells and whistles on top of its core antivirus abilities, but it's missing a few features we found useful in other products. There's no way to scan a home network for security risks, a feature that Avast, Kaspersky and McAfee provide. (Trend Micro's antivirus software is featured on some newer Asus Wi-Fi routers, such as the Asus RT-AC87U.) Nor is there any system vulnerability scanner, software firewall, virtual keyboard, webcam protection or backup software, as some (but not all) other products we reviewed had. On the other hand, Premium Security has something its biggest competitors lack: 25GB of space on Trend Micro's cloud servers that can replace a Dropbox or GoogleDrive account for those with large storage needs. (Bitdefender Total Security and Kaspersky Total Security offer 2 GB of online storage; McAfee LiveSafe offers 1 GB.) The main screen's Privacy heading is very powerful and includes add-ons for the Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers that can help protect you while you nose around in the Web's dark corners. In addition, Trend Micro Premium Security includes an extra extension that will turn any of those three into a secure "hardened" browser that encrypts keystrokes and runs in a sandbox. A hardened browser is ideal for checking on your bank balance or buying items online, but you probably don't want to set up all your browsers this way, because hardening will disable all other add-ons. Avast Premier, Bitdefender Total Security and Kaspersky Total Security offer hardened browsers that run as stand-alone programs. 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Premium Security's parental controls are in the Family category. In addition to setting an access schedule so that homework gets done and dinners are not interrupted, the software can block inappropriate websites by category. You can also lock out select applications, such as games or music-streaming services. Finally, Trend Micro offers a free Windows Rescue Disk to clean up otherwise unfixable infections, but instead of integrating the disk into the rest of the program, the company makes you go to its website and download the software. If you need the Rescue Disk to save your own machine, it might be best to download it to a different computer. Performance OptimizationDon't let its name fool you — PC Health Check, accessible from the Device screen, is a comprehensive performance and privacy optimizer that examines the entire system and suggests ways in which the computer can run better. PC Health Check starts with a single click, can reduce startup time and can recover lost disk space from places such as the Recycle Bin and temp files. Our favorite feature is Clean Privacy Data, which appears after PC Health Checkup is done with a scan. This utility goes through the saved data for each active browser, wiping things such the History list and temporary cookies. While PC Health Check is useful and can help a system run more smoothly, it isn't perfect. The feature lacks best-of-breedfeatures, such as those found in Bitdefender's AutoPilot, which silently tunes the computer for the tasks at hand, or Kaspersky's Windows troubleshooting section. Performance and System ImpactTrend Micro's scanning engine was one of the fastest of the five products we evaluated, with the ability to do a Quick Scan in just 3 minutes and 12 seconds, beating all the others except Bitdefender (which took 26 seconds). Trend Micro did a Full Scan in 1 hour and 10 minutes, beaten only by AVG, which took half the time. (AVG's malware engine skips files that haven't changed since the previous scan; no other company does this.) The Trend Micro malware scanner didn't find anything worrisome on our system in several days of use. As is the case with many of its peers, Trend Micro's malware scanner had a mixed effect on our computer's performance. During a full scan, Premium Security slowed the completion time of our custom OpenOffice benchmark test, which matches 20,000 names with their corresponding addresses, by only 18 seconds, or about 3 percent. You probably won't notice the difference. (Only McAfee LiveSafe, which is owned by Intel and has a home-team advantage on that company's processors, did better.) Trend Micro's Quick Scan actually slowed down the OpenOffice test a bit more, with it completing in 17:22. All the competing products' Quick Scans improved the OpenOffice time. Setup and InstallationIf you have a variety of computers at home, Trend Micro Premium Security supports all versions of Windows from XP to 8.1, as well as OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and up, although the Mac version lacks some extras. The Premium Security license also covers the premium versions of the Trend Micro Mobile Security apps for Android and iOS. (The sole Trend Micro app for Windows Phone is for enterprises only.) The package's license allows you to mix and match up to five devices for $100, but you can cut that price in half by agreeing to automatically renew the annual license. If you're sure you want to keep buying Trend Micro Premium Security, this is a bargain; otherwise, it may be a burden. At 241 MB, Trend Micro Premium Security's installer package is the largest among the five antivirus products we've reviewed in this round, but it completed our installation in a relatively speedy 12 minute and 30 seconds. As it was setting up, Trend Micro Premium Security removed 11 browser cookies and suggested changing the User Account Settings to improve security. InterfaceTrend Micro's soft blue-and-gray interface is not as bold as Avast's striking color palette, but it has something most of the other products lack: a central Scan button right on the home screen. When everything is safe, the button has a green circle around it, accompanied by a check mark and the word "Protected." The main screen's large Scan button allows quick access to a Full, Quick or Custom scan that includes the ability to look at removable drives. In other packages, the ability to begin a scan is buried a level or two down, and this convenience is welcome. However, Maximum Security lacks anything as quick as Bitdefender's optional 60-second scan. Along the top of the home screen are the program's four main areas: Device, Privacy, Data and Family. To the right of the central scan circle, there are spots to bring up Scan Options, Settings and a Security Report. Trend Micro presents the cleanest and tidiest of the six interfaces we've seen in this category; many of the others have a dozen or more individual elements cluttering the main screen. As you might expect, clicking Device takes you to a page from which you can modify the security settings. There's a large Configure button that lets you adjust everything from whether the scanner should examine compressed files to whether it should automatically delete a suspicious file. For newbies, the three-tiered Protection Level options page will make quick work of getting the right balance of security and paranoia. There are settings for Normal, Hypersensitive and letting the program adjust the protection level automatically. The main Device page also offers ways to extend protection to other devices, as well as the one-click PC Health Checkup optimizer. Trend Micro Premium Security can deliver a report on computer threats as well as give you a detailed log of the program's antiviral activities. However, it lacks a geographical overview along the lines of McAfee's Threat Map. Bottom LineIt caught and killed every piece of malware thrown at it, but Trend Micro Premium Security may be a little too zealous, generating more false positives than average. It comes with a generous amount of online storage and has a nice performance and privacy optimizer, but the program lacks a network scanner and several other useful features. On the other hand, Premium Security was one of the fastest at scanning for malware and comes with a large amount of secure storage. At $50, if you choose to auto-renew the license, Trend Micro Premium Security is a genuine bargain for protecting five PCs, Macs or mobile devices — at least for the first year.

Almost two years into the PS4's lifecycle, Sony has updated the console with a substantial revision that is not only cheaper to produce, but is also quieter and considerably more power-efficient. The new CUH-1200 revision is currently available only in Japan so unfortunately we can't test it directly, but much of the analysis we'd like to carry out has already been done by the Pocket News blog, and the results are fascinating. Let's talk about the physical make-up of the machine first. The changes extend way beyond the removal of the glossy plastics and a re-arrangement of the existing rear ports on the unit's exterior. On the inside, there's a new, smaller motherboard with a series of changes. Taking centre-stage is a reconfiguration of the GDDR5 memory set-up. Earlier incarnations of the PS4 used a considerable 16 memory modules to provide the 8GB complement - the new CUH-1200 makes use of double-density Samsung modules to halve that to just eight, which should reduce energy consumption significantly. The main processor within PS4 has received a new designation, perhaps suggesting some kind of change to its design, but its physical dimensions remain the same, confirming that it is still a 28nm chip. There remains the possibility that Sony may have moved onto a more efficient iteration of the 28nm process, but our gut feeling is that it's still the same chip at its core. Within CUH-1200, there's still see the usual 5400rpm HGST Z5K500 hard drive, but other areas see change. There's the introduction of a simpler Blu-ray drive design, minor changes to component arrangement and the replacement of a few chips, including the Panasonic HDMI controller. There are also small changes to the cooling assemblies through the unit, but the main fan is the same. A new power supply is introduced: it's 80g lighter and has a lower output, which may also contribute to the overall improvement in power efficiency. Pocket News 'tore down' the new CUH-1200 unit, revealing the new motherboard layout. The previous board had 16 512MB GDDR5 modules, eight on each side of the board. The new unit has only eight modules, all of them on the reverse side. Click on the thumbnails for a closer look. And that's where the new CUH-1200 model really comes into its own. According to Pocket News's metrics, standby power is anything from 30 to 50 per cent lower (depending on mode) compared to the launch unit, while the main menu is around 11 per cent more efficient. Perhaps not surprisingly, the biggest gain comes during gameplay, where the launch unit draws 148.6W, while CUH-1200 brings that down to 122W - that's an 18 per cent drop, and actually brings PS4 power consumption down to the same approximate level as Xbox One. But for many, it'll be any reduction in fan noise that is most important, and without a proper hands-on, it's difficult to translate Pocket News's metrics into an appreciation of the actual experience. However, the launch PS4 was measured at a peak 60dB, dropping down to a minimum of 43dB and 57dB on average. In contrast, CUH-1200 handed in a peak 56dB, 42dB minimum and 52dB on average. It may not sound like a lot, but decibels aren't measured on a linear scale, and the Pocket News blogger notes that the new unit is noticeably quieter. As the new unit uses the same fan as the older hardware, the reduction in noise must simply come down to a lower rpm overall. PlayStation 4's fan noise is one of the only issues we have with what is fundamentally a very well-designed piece of hardware. Sony chose to retain a console-like form-factor over the set-top box style found on Xbox One, resulting in a more stylish unit but one that by necessity requires a smaller fan spinning at a faster rate, inevitably producing more noise. But the bottom line is that an 18 per cent drop in power consumption leads to less heat generation overall, and thus less of a need to cool the internals quite so aggressively. We'll try to get a closer look at the new hardware as soon as possible, but that isn't easy bearing in mind that the new design is currently available only in Japan. The new 1TB PlayStation coming to the UK is based on the existing design, and it's unknown when the new version will ship to territories outside of Japan. But the basic existence of a CUH-1200 based on the existing chassis scuppers any potential PS4 'Slim' for a good while yet - we fully expect that it'll take a full revision of the main processor to a smaller 20nm or 16nm fabrication node to see a top to bottom revision of the full console. But in the here and now, CUH-1200 looks like an impressive new iteration of the PS4 hardware, and we'd recommend taking a trip to the Pocket News blog to dive deep into the wealth of data on the new hardware.

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