Poll: Do you use AiProtection in your ASUS router?

[OzarkEdge]

Poll (see above): Do you use AiProtection in your ASUS router?

OE

 

[L&LD]

No reason not to. Already paid for the privilege to use it too, when buying a supported Asus router.

 

[paulbates]

While I've only had it identify threats under "Malicious Sites Blocking", and that's trended down over time as this role has shifted to DNS.. it continues to identify threats periodically, even this week.

 

[OzarkEdge]

No reason not to. Already paid for the privilege to use it too, when buying a supported Asus router.

Yes but, not everyone sees it as a privilege. At least they don't require a recurring subscription like some OEMs are doing.

OE

 

[follower]

Absolutely no. It's a trash.

 

[OzarkEdge]

Absolutely no. It's a trash.

Are you a malware author?

OE

 

[bbunge]

Always have used it. Have seen it protect a small office network from employees who have bad browsing habits. Including the executive director.
Anything free is cheap....

 

[L&LD]

But it's not free. It's in the price of each router.

It may still be 'cheap' though!

 

[Invisible Boy]

Consider my laptops and smartphones are spied on by OS companies and countless apps, TM is the least of my concern. In fact, even your ISP and VPN providers are spying on you. If you are using any mainland Chinese routers, all your data must be routed to Bejing by law when requested. Cisco do the same for the US government, and so do MS and Google and many more. If you are some high profile people or doing anything shady or illegal, you might have to worry. But for the average people, WTFC. Internet privacy doesn't exist afterall.

 

[XIII]

Anything free is cheap....

Unless when a product is free because you are the product?

 

[follower]

Are you a malware author?

OE

I don't do that.

 

[noah way]

"what can be seen by Trend Micro:

• Product information, such as MAC address, device ID
• Public IP address of the user’s gateway to the internet
• Mobile/PC environment
• Metadata from suspicious executable files
• URLs, Domains and IP addresses of websites visited (which answers the question in the title of this article)
• Metadata of user/device managed by gateway Product
• Application behaviours
• Personal information contained within email content or files to which Trend Micro is provided access
• Behaviours of Product users
• Information from suspicious email, including sender and receiver email address, and attachments
• Detected malicious file information
• Detected malicious network connection information
• Debug logs
• Network Architecture/Topology
• Screen capture of errors"

Does Trend Micro collect web browsing history through the AiProtection from Asus routers? – MBReviews

The answer is yes, but as all things in life, it's a bit more complicated. AiProtection was added to the Asus routers about five years ago when the Taiwanese

www.mbreviews.com

Hard pass.

 

[OzarkEdge]

"what can be seen by Trend Micro:

• Product information, such as MAC address, device ID
• Public IP address of the user’s gateway to the internet
• Mobile/PC environment
• Metadata from suspicious executable files
• URLs, Domains and IP addresses of websites visited (which answers the question in the title of this article)
• Metadata of user/device managed by gateway Product
• Application behaviours
• Personal information contained within email content or files to which Trend Micro is provided access
• Behaviours of Product users
• Information from suspicious email, including sender and receiver email address, and attachments
• Detected malicious file information
• Detected malicious network connection information
• Debug logs
• Network Architecture/Topology
• Screen capture of errors"

Does Trend Micro collect web browsing history through the AiProtection from Asus routers? – MBReviews

The answer is yes, but as all things in life, it's a bit more complicated. AiProtection was added to the Asus routers about five years ago when the Taiwanese

www.mbreviews.com

Hard pass.

Some FUD in that.

The links on the following router webUI page are more relevant... read them:

Global Privacy Notice | Trend Micro

Read Trend Micro's Global Privacy Notice.

www.trendmicro.com

Smart Home Network | Data Collection Notice

Smart Home Network includes the following modules which, when enabled, will cause the corresponding data to be transmitted to Trend Micro.

esupport.trendmicro.com

OE

 

[Jbennett360]

Some FUD in that.

The links on the following router webUI page are more relevant... read them:

View attachment 40157

Global Privacy Notice | Trend Micro

Read Trend Micro's Global Privacy Notice.

www.trendmicro.com

Smart Home Network | Data Collection Notice

Smart Home Network includes the following modules which, when enabled, will cause the corresponding data to be transmitted to Trend Micro.

esupport.trendmicro.com

OE

So, Web Reputation Service;

• IP address
• URL
• File name
• File path

 

[Marcus Yansen]

Forgot to add:

The collected information can also be used for other purposes such as:

• Internal record keeping;
• Compliance with the law and requests from government bodies;
• Product and Service development;
• Keeping existing and past Customers informed about our Products, Services and promotions;
• Providing Customer support;
• Managing subscriptions and billing; and
• Responding to requests, questions and comments.


What is 'wrong' or 'illegal' and what is 'right' and 'moral' change over time or according to government policy so I def would not be comfortable enabling this feature.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Forgot to add:

The collected information can also be used for other purposes such as:

• Internal record keeping;
• Compliance with the law and requests from government bodies;
• Product and Service development;
• Keeping existing and past Customers informed about our Products, Services and promotions;
• Providing Customer support;
• Managing subscriptions and billing; and
• Responding to requests, questions and comments.


What is 'wrong' or 'illegal' and what is 'right' and 'moral' change over time or according to government policy so I def would not be comfortable enabling this feature.

You're quoting TrendMicro's general policy for all of their products (do they have your subscription and billing info? - no). You need to read their policy regarding Smart Home devices where it applies to Asus routers as mentioned in posts #13 and #14.

This subject has been flogged to death in numerous threads over many years now. This thread alone is over a year old.