Setting Up

Before you can use the Trend Micro Portable Security Scanning Tool, remember the following:

Important:

You must activate the Scanning Tool before using it. Refer to Activating a Managed Scanning Tool for more information.

  • If the user account has administrator privileges, you can use Trend Micro Portable Security to scan the computer.

  • If the user account does not have administrator privileges, you can enable the Scan as administrator option then open Windows Explorer and double-click Launcher.exe from the TMPS3 SYS partition.

  • Portable Security saves the scan result logs in the Scanning Tool after scanning a device.

  • To open the Scanning Tool console on an endpoint installed with Management Program, make sure the Management Program console is closed.

This chapter describes Trend Micro Portable Security™ installation, upgrade, and activation procedures.